Performance Analysis of Routing Protocols for Battlefield Monitoring System

Many authors have compared various routing protocols such as AODV, DSR, DSDV, TORA, DYMO, OLSR etc in the past [1], [2], [3] and [4]. In this paper, we have compare AODV, DYMO and OLSR routing protocols under Battlefield Monitoring System. In battlefield monitoring system, a sensor nodes act as a source which can vary and a single sink that collects information. The sensors constantly monitor the restricted area. The sensory information observed by each sensor is stored locally at the sensor. The mobile vehicles are moving inside the area where sensors are deployed. These mobile vehicles then collect the data from the sensors and send it to the fusion center (Sink). The sensor network simulator architecture used is for battle field monitoring and provides support for sensing capabilities in network nodes. The simulation is done with the help of Qualnet 5.0.2. The performance parameters taken for comparison are energy consumption, throughput, average jitter and average end to end delay. The simulation result shows that AODV performed better in terms of throughput while OLSR performed better in average end to end delay, jitter. DYMO performed better in terms of energy consumption.