Performance Comparison of AODV & DSR Routing Protocol in a Fading Environmen

n most of the performance comparison of routing protocols, the effects of fadings are rarely considered. The protocols are instead compared in terms of traffic intensity, node intensity and mobility etc. In this paper, the performance of two classic routing protocols for adhoc network such as AODV & DSR are compared for Ricean and Rayl eigh fading environment. Qualnet Simulator has been used for the simulation and performance analysis. It was found that DSR protocol gives more throughput and less average end - end delay in comparison to AODV for both Ricean & Rayleigh fading environment.