Analysis of Optimum Routing Protocol and Mobility Model for Mobile Ad Hoc Network

Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (MANET) is a collection of wireless mobile nodes that communicate with each other without any centralized access points, infrastructure, or centralized administration. This paper presents an analysis of various quality of service metrics (QoS) of mobile ad hoc network nodes like Throughput, Delay, Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR), Hop Count (HC) and Control Overhead (CO) in varying routing protocol (AODV,DSR,DYMO,ZRP). The goal of this paper is to provide an insight on how various routing protocol and mobility model affects quality of service metrics in mobile ad-hoc networks. A comparative study of the routing protocol and mobility model is made to determine the optimum routing protocol and mobility model for mobile ad hoc environment to produce the optimum quality of service metrics. The analysis is performed in the simulation environment and graphical results are explained.