Dynamic Source Routing

Interior gateway protocol

Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Routing

Link-state routing protocol

Wireless Routing Protocol

Network packet

Distance-vector routing protocol

Computer science

Distributed computing

Routing protocol

Zone Routing Protocol

Computer network

Optimized Link State Routing Protocol

Destination-Sequenced Distance Vector routing

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Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) is a set of mobile nodes that communicate with each other to configure an immediate network without utilizing any of infrastructure, the centralized access point or centralized administration in multiple hop manner. There are a lot of routing protocols have been proposed in MANET which are different from each other in the performance and the mechanism. Therefore, the performance study of those protocols in different scenarios is needed. This paper presents the performance comparison between Dynamic Source Routing (DSR), Ad hoc on demand distance Vector Routing (AODV) as reactive routing protocols and Destination Sequenced Distance Vector (DSDV) as a proactive routing protocol to precisely determine which protocol is more effective. Network Simulator (NS) version 2.35 has used to simulate and evaluate the performance of these protocols in terms of the packet delivery ratio, average throughput, average end-to-end delay, and packet loss ratio with respect to the variable number of nodes.

MANET Routing Protocols Evaluation: AODV, DSR and DSDV Perspective