Mobile Ad-Hoc Routing Protocols: Evaluation of Performance

Mobile Ad-hoc networks (MANETs) are the only plausible choice when there is no infrastructure wireless network or it is too expensive to build one as in remote areas.They have the advantage of being quickly deployable.Routing is needed to find a path between the source and the destination and to forward the packets even if the destination node is out of range of the source node.In ad-hoc networks, high mobility, low bandwidth, and limited computing capability characteristics of mobile hosts make routing of data is one of the most difficult issues.In this paper we are considering the performance evaluation of three routing protocols in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs).We have evaluated the effect of speed, TCP types, and maximum queue length for Destination Sequence Distance Vector (DSDV) protocol, Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) protocol, and Ad-hoc On Demand Distance Vector (AODV) protocol.