Performance Analysis of AODV and DSR Routing Protocols in Mobile Ad-Hoc Network

The Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (MANET) technology is a self-organized wireless interconnection of communication devices without the use of any fixed network infrastructure/backbone. The performance of Ad-hoc on-demand Distance Vector (AODV) and Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) protocol is two MANET protocol. Selecting an appropriate routing protocol for steering data packet is a very important issue to evaluate the performance of wireless mobile ad-hoc networks (MANET). In order to guarantee an optimum use of these protocols, we need to test different routing protocols performances. This paper presents the performance analysis comparison of ad-hoc on-demand routing protocol (AODV) and Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) under different performance metrics like throughput, packet drop rate and end-to-end delay. Efficiency achieved by the AODV protocol is higher than DSR protocol in mobile ad-hoc networks. The simulation is done in Network Simulator (NS) 2.