Evaluation of MANET using quality assurance metrics

An Ad hoc network is a collection of autonomous mobile wireless nodes which form a dynamically temporary network. These networks are not have any existing network infrastructure and also without centralized administration. In ad-hoc network routing is a challenging issue. Out of several routing protocols which have been proposed for ad hoc networks, most popular among them are Ad hoc On Demand Distance Vector Routing (AODV) and Dynamic Source Routing (DSR). In this paper authors analyse the performance of AODV and DSR routing protocols for the quality assurance metrics. The performance differentials of AODV and DSR protocols are analyzed using NS-2 and compared in terms of scales applied on Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR), in different environments categorized by varying pause time, speed and number of nodes.