Performance comparison and analysis of ad hoc routing algorithms

Abstract
A Mobile ad-hoc network (Manet) is a system of wire- less mobile nodes dynamically self-organizing in arbi- trary and temporary network topologies. People and vehicles can thus be internetworked in areas without a pre-existing communication infrastructure, or when the use of such infrastructure requires wireless exten- sion. Therefore, such networks are designed to op- erate in widely va ying environments, from milita y networks to low-power sensor networks and other em- bedded systems. Frequent topology changes caused by node mobility make routing in ad hoc wireless networks a challenging problem. In thas paper, we focus upon routing protocols for ad hoc networks. We study and compare the performance of several routing protocols. A variety of workload and scenarios using a variety of mobility, load and size of the ad hoc network were simulated.

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