Comparison of AOMDV Routing Protocol under IEEE802.11 and TDMA Mac Layer Protocol

A Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET) is a dynamic wireless network that can be formed without the need for any pre-existing infrastructure in which each node can act as a router. One of the major challenges of MANET is the design of vigorous routing algorithms that adapt to the frequent and randomly varying network topology. Numbers of routing protocols have been proposed and several of them have been widely simulated or implemented as well. In proposed paper, we evaluate the performance of On-demand Multipath Distance Vector (AOMDV) routing protocol with two Mac layer protocol IEEE802.11 and TDMA for four parameters namely, Packet delivery fraction, Average End-to-End delay, Normalized Routing Load and Throughput. We conclude that working of 802.11 is more efficient than TDMA.