Analysis of routing protocols using UDP traffic under dynamic network topology

Mobile ad hoc networking enables communication in mobile wireless network by incorporating routing functionality into mobile nodes. In Mobile ad hoc network, nodes can formulates multi-hop dynamic topology which is sometimes rapidly changing and likely composed of bandwidth-constrained and variable capacity wireless links. Over such type of network choice of appropriate routing protocol that could offer efficient communication is obligatory. To elucidate this issue, paper presents the simulation analysis to investigate the performance of selected proactive and reactive routing protocols in a dynamic ad hoc environment considering UDP traffic. Paper also examines the impact of various conditions triggered due to node mobility.