A Survey on Wireless Routing Protocols (AODV, DSR, DSDV)

Due to rapid advance in communication technology, the current demand is for wireless network than wired network. Wireless communication technologies have brought in fundamental changes in telecommunication and computer networking. Wireless networks include MANETS (Mobile ad hoc networks) which is a collection of mobile nodes that communicate through wireless links and have no fixed topology or central administration. The task of sending packets between nodes called routing is done in MANET by some routing protocols. During last few years, a variety of different routing protocols that address multi-hop ad-hoc network have been developed. These protocols have been efficiently designed and their performances have been evaluated according to different performance parameters. Routing protocols vary according to network type. Some of the best known protocols are AODV, DSR and DSDV. While AODV and DSR are reactive i.e., they are ondemand; DSDV is proactive protocol i.e., they are table driven. This paper presents a survey on routing protocols namely AODV, DSR and DSDV to find the best suited for wireless networks.