Scenario-Based Performance Evaluation of Proactive, Reactive and Hybrid Routing Protocols in MANET using Random Waypoint Model

A Mobile Ad-Hoc Network is a set of wireless mobile nodes that communes with each other without using any dynamic infrastructure, access point or centralized supervision. In Mobile Ad-hoc network, due to mobility of nodes network topology commutes repeatedly and thus, routing process becomes a challenging task. A selection of routing protocols with varying network circumstances are analyzed and presents performance analysis of AODV, OLSR, ZRP, RAODV, AOMDV, DYMO and DSR Routing protocols in different mobility scenarios based on Random Waypoint mobility model in MANET with pause time. In this paper, an effort has been made to compare seven well known routing protocols AODV, RAODV, AOMDV, OLSR, DSR, DYMO and ZRP by using different performance metrics Packet Delivery Ratio, Average Jitter, Normalized Routing Load, First Packet Receive, Last Packet Receive, Total Packet Receive, Total Bytes Receive and Average End to End delay. The comparison has been done by using simulation tool NS-2.34 which is the main simulator, NAM (Network Animator) and MATLAB which is used for preparing the graphs from the trace files.