International Journal of Computer Applications |
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
Volume 54 - Number 12 |
Year of Publication: 2012 |
Authors: Anjali, Maninder Singh |
10.5120/8615-2476 |
Anjali, Maninder Singh . Performance Analysis of Proactive, Reactive and Hybrid MANET Routing Protocols on IEEE 802.11 Standard. International Journal of Computer Applications. 54, 12 ( September 2012), 1-8. DOI=10.5120/8615-2476
MANET consists of mobile nodes which exchange information dynamically among them over wireless links. The most important element of MANET is Routing Protocols which are needed to handle dynamic communication and also find route so as to deliver data packets to the correct destination. Performance of routing protocols is an important issue because of dynamic nature of MANET. In this paper performance of AODV, OLSR and GRP routing protocols is evaluated for FTP based application traffic on IEEE 802. 11 WLAN Standard and 48 Mbps data rate. The network performance is evaluated by using OPNET simulator based on various quantitative metrics- Network Load, Throughput, Retransmission Attempts and Media Access Delay by varying physical characteristics and number of nodes. A comparative performance analysis of these protocols have been carried out in this paper and in the last conclusion will be presented which demonstrate that performance of routing protocols differs by varying the network and selection of accurate routing protocol according to the network ultimately influences the efficiency of the network in a magnificent way.