Performance Evaluation of Reactive Protocols for Ad Hoc Wireless Sensor Network

Abstract — The requirement for good Quality of Service in Mobile Ad Hoc Network is that, better protocols should be used. To improve protocol efficiency, the two key issues to be considered are, low control overhead and low energy consumption. For reducing energy consumption and routing overhead, an enhanced routing algorithm, EEDSR (Energy Efficient Dynamic Source Routing) with local route enhancement model for DSR (Dynamic Source Routing) is implemented. Comparisons based on routing overhead, energy and throughput is done between EEDSR and EEAODV (Energy Efficient Ad Hoc on Demand Distance Vector) and AODV (Ad Hoc on Demand Distance Vector) protocols. For all protocols, NS-2.34 Simulator is used. This paper presents the simulation results in order to choose the best routing protocol to give highest performance. The simulations have shown that EEDSR protocol performs well as it consumes 12% less energy than EEAODV and AODV