Comparison of AODV and DSR on-demand routing protocols in mobile ad hoc networks

The mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) technology is a self organized wireless interconnection of communication devices without the use of any fixed network infrastructure/backbone. The performance of Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector (AODV) and Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) protocol are two MANET protocol. This paper presents the performance analysis comparison of ad-hoc on-demand routing protocol (AODV) and Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) under different performance metrics like throughput, packet drop rate and end-to-end delay. The simulation result shows that throughput of AODV protocol is better than DSR protocol as the nodes are increasing/adding to network. Packet drop rate and end-to-end delay of AODV protocol is less than DSR protocol as the nodes are increasing. Efficiency achieved by the AODV protocol is higher than DSR protocol in mobile ad hoc networks. The simulation is done in Network Simulator (NS) 2.