Scenario based performance evaluation of routing algorithm of MANET

The growth of laptops and 802.11/Wi-Fi wireless networking have made MANETs a popular research topic since the mid- to late 1990s. Many academic papers evaluate protocols and abilities assuming varying degrees of mobility within a bounded space, usually with all nodes within a few hops of each other and usually with nodes sending data at a constant rate. Due to mobility of nodes, dynamic topology of the network, lack of centralized mechanism makes manet more vulnerable. One of the main issues in Ad-hoc networks is to develop a routing protocol which must be capable of handling very large number of nodes with limited bandwidth and power availability. The performance of these routing protocols is evaluated with respect to routing throughput and packet delivery ratio in different scenarios.