Performance Evaluation of MANET Through NS2 Simulation: Ayush Pandey and Anuj Srivastava
Performance Evaluation of MANET Through NS2 Simulation: Ayush Pandey and Anuj Srivastava
Performance Evaluation of MANET Through NS2 Simulation: Ayush Pandey and Anuj Srivastava
Abstract
1. Introduction
Wireless networking is an emerging technology that allows users to access information
and services electronically, regardless of their geographic position. Wireless networks
can be classified in two types.
the destination node. To retain the stability, each station broadcasts and modifies its
routing table from time to time.
Example of Proactive Routing Protocol is Destination Sequenced Distance Vector
(DSDV).
2.3 Reactive Routing Protocol
Reactive Protocol has lower overhead since routes are determined on demand. It
employs flooding (global search) concept. Constantly update of route tables with the
latest route topology is not required in on demand concept. Reactive protocol searches
for the route in an on-demand manner and set the link in order to send out and accept
the packet from a source node to destination node. Route discovery process is used in
on demand routing by flooding the route request (RREQ) packets throughout the
network.
Examples of reactive routing protocols are the dynamic source Routing (DSR), ad
hoc on-demand distance vector routing (AODV).
3. Software Description
Network simulator-2 [5] is popularly used for ad-hoc networking community. It is the
open source software for evaluating the performance of the existing network protocols
and evaluates new network protocols before use. Use NS2 simulator to simulate a
variety of IP networks. The main goal of the NS2 simulator is to provide support to
education and research in networking. It is one of the best programmed in terms of
comparing different routing protocols and designing new ones. NS2 has been written
in two languages: Object oriented variant of Tool Command Language (OTCL) and
object oriented language C++.
The Routing protocols were compared based on parameter metrics given below:
Throughput and Packet Delivery Fraction (PDF) are used to define the
performance of network. Round-Trip-Time is the time required for a single packet to
travel from a specific source to destination and back again. Window Size is the number
of data packets that can be sent without waiting for an acknowledgement.
Window Size = Throughput * RTT
Throughput = Window Size / RTT
Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR) [6] is the ratio between the number of packets
transmitted by a traffic source and the number of packets received by a traffic
destination. It measures the loss rate as seen by transport protocols and as specific to
both the correctness and efficiency of ad hoc routing protocols.
Throughput defined as the ratio of the total amount of data that reaches a receiver
from a sender to the time it takes for the receiver to get the last packet.
X axis: Round Trip Time
Y axis: Window Size
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4. Conclusion
Our simulation work illustrates the performance of three routing protocols AODV,
DSR and DSDV. The paper presents a study of the performance of routing protocols
AODV and DSR perform better under high mobility simulations than DSDV. In DSR
uses source routing and route caches, and does not depend on any periodic or timer-
based activities. While AODV uses routing tables, destination sequence numbers, a
mechanism to prevent loops and to determine freshness of routes.
Therefore by observing the performance of these routing protocols, we can say
DSR shows higher throughput than DSDV and AODV.
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5. Acknowledgement
The project is supported by teaching staff of Department Of Electronics and
Communication, MGMCOET, Noida. We would like to special thanks to Ms. Priyanka
Chauhan (Assistant Professor) for providing valuable suggestions and guidance in
making of this paper.
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