The Performance Evaluation of Genetic Zone Routing Protocol for MANETs

Zone Routing Protocol (ZRP) is a most promising and widely accepted and well proved hybrid routing protocol in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) for its performance when compared with table-driven and on-demand protocols. In this paper, we propose a new routing protocol called Genetic Zone Routing Protocol (GZRP) which is the extension of ZRP by using Genetic Algorithm (GA). There are studies related to performance analysis of ZRP based on various environmental factors like Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR), Total overhead and Delay by varying the mobility of the nodes in the ad hoc network. Our study uses GA on ZRP to provide a limited set of alternative routes to the destination in order to load balance the network and robustness during node/link failure. The paper produces the results of studies related to performance of new routing protocol with respect to PDR, Total overhead and Delay while varying the mobility of the nodes.