Routing Protocols for Mobile Ad Hoc Network - A Survey and Analysis

Rahul M Desai (Army Institute of technology)
B P Patil (Army Institute of Technology)
Davinder Pal Sharma (The University of The West Indies)

Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Vol 7, No 3: September 2017

Ad hoc networks are mobile wireless networks where each node is acting as a router. The existing routing protocols such as Destination sequences distance vector, Optimized list state routing protocols, Ad hoc on demand routing protocol, Ad hoc on demand multipath routing protocol, Dynamic source routing are optimized versions of distance vector or link state routing protocols.  In this paper, existing protocols such as DSDV, AODV, AOMDV, OLSR and DSR are analyzed on 50 nodes Mobile Ad Hoc network with random mobility. Packet delivery ratio, delay, control overhead and throughput parameters are used for performance analysis.