Mobility and Traffic Based Performance Evaluation of MANET Routing Protocols

Ad-hoc network is a collection of two or more nodes with wireless communication. They have ability to communicate without centralized manner. Ad-hoc network is temporary. Infrastructure less and de-centralized network. It is a self configuring network. Nodes do not sleep in ad-hoc network. Mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) is a collection of mobile nodes. There are many types of routing protocols for maintaining the devices over the network. The main objective of routing protocols is accurate and efficient route establishment between mobile nodes so that message may be delivered in time. In this thesis, we analyze two routing protocols for MANET- the destination sequenced distance vector (DSDV), table driven protocol and Ad-hoc on demand distance vector (AODV) an on demand protocol and evaluates both protocols with increasing number of nodes, sources based on jitter, send packets, received packets, routing packets, packet delivery fraction, Normalized routing load, average end to end delay, number of dropped packets. Additionally, We evaluate both protocols with varying traffic (congestion/CBR Load) and mobility of nodes and calculate the number of send, received and routing packets.