An Efficient DSDV Routing Protocol for Wireless Mobile Ad Hoc Networks and its Performance Comparison

One of the popular wireless network architectures is mobile ad hoc network (MANET) which can be deployed easily in almost any environment, without any underlying backbone and infrastructure support. In this paper, an efficient DSDV (Eff-DSDV) protocol is proposed for ad hoc networks. Eff-DSDV overcomes the problem of stale routes, and thereby improves the performance of regular DSDV. The proposed protocol has been implemented in the NCTUns Simulator and performance comparison has been made with regular DSDV and DSR protocols. The performance metrics considered are packet-delivery ratio, end-end delay, dropped packets, routing overhead, route length. It has been found after analysis that the performance of Eff-DSDV is superior to regular DSDV and sometimes better than DSR in certain cases.