Return to Workshop Listing| Author: | Dmitri Perkins and Vikram Ghorpade |
| Advisor: | Dr. Herman Hughes |
| Email: | perkin27@cse.msu.edu; http://www.cps.msu.edu/~perkin27; ghorpade@cse.msu.edu; http://www.cps.msu.edu/~ghorpade |
Summary:Mobile Ad Hoc NETworks (MANETs) can be characterized as having a dynamic, multihop, potentially rapid changing topology. Such networks aim to provide communication capabilities to areas where limited or no communication infrastructure exist; or, where it is simply more convenient to allow the communication devices to form a dynamic and temporary network among themselves. Several routing protocols have been proposed for mobile ad hoc networks. However, very few performance comparisons of the various protocols exist. In this paper, we compare the performance of four proposed routing protocols: Ad-Hoc On Demand Distance Vector (AODV), Dynamic Source Routing (DSR), Location-Aided Routing (LAR), and Fisheye State Routing (FSR). Simulation results are presented for assessing the following metrics: network throughput, end-to-end delay, control overhead ratio, and packet delivery ratio. It was observed that while FSR has the lowest control overhead ratio, it also exhibits the lowest network throughput. The highest average throughput was achieved by the LAR-1 routing protocol; however, it also experiences the highest end-to-end delay.