Simulation Study on the Performance of Reactive and Position-Based Routing Protocols in MANET

摘要

Recently, Mobile Ad Hoc NETwork (MANET) has drawn the attention of the research community particularly in routing protocols, such as the proactive, reactive and position-based routing. Invariably, the primary objective of routing protocols is transmitting the data packets from the source to the destination node. Therefore, these protocols can be distinguished based on the processes of searching, maintaining and recovering the routing path. A potential problem in MANET is identifying the best routing protocol. In this paper, we present performance evaluation study of reactive; Ad Hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV) and position-based; Location-Aided Routing (LAR1). The performance evaluation study performed using QualNet v5.1 simulator. Additionally, the performance of those routing protocols investigated based on the throughput, delay, average jitter and energy consumption metrics varying the number of nodes. This results showed that the AODV has a better performance than LAR1 in terms of average jitter and throughput. While LAR1 performed better than AODV in terms of average end-to-end delay and energy consumption.