Performance Analysis of AODV & DSR Routing Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks

摘要

As deployment of sensor networks are increasing either manually or randomly to monitor physical environments in different applications such as military, agriculture, medical transport, industry etc. In monitoring of physical environments, the most important application of wireless sensor network is monitoring of critical conditions. The most important in monitoring application like critical condition is the sensing of information during emergency state from the physical environment where the network of sensors is deployed. A big challenge to sensor networks is a fast, reliable and fault tolerant channel during emergency conditions to sink (base station) that receives the events. Our focus is to discuss and evaluate the performance of two different routing protocols like Ad hoc On Demand Distance Vector (AODV) [1] and Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) for monitoring of critical conditions with the help of important metrics like network load and media access delay in different scenarios for both stable and mobile nodes. On the basis of results derived from simulation a conclusion is drawn on the comparison between these two different routing protocols with parameters like media access delay and network load