Implementation of Performance Evaluation Methodologies for the Ad-Hoc on-Demand Distance Vector Routing Protocols

Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) allow wireless nodes to form a network without requiring a fixed infrastructure. Early routing protocols for MANETs failed to take security issues into account. Subsequent proposals used strong cryptographic methods to secure the routing information. In this paper, we give the comparison SAODV and TAODV, two MANET routing protocols, which address routing security through cryptographic and trust-based means respectively.

In this work, we have compared the SAODV and TAODV protocols for securing ad-hoc network routing. We presented the results of implementation and evaluation of both protocols. The expected difference between the two protocols was shown to be consistent with this real world scenario. It shows that SAODV is indeed a significantly more expensive than TAOAV protocol. These experiments showed that there is significant room between the two protocols for a secure hybrid protocol to be developed which takes advantage of the strongest points of both.