Performance Comparison of MANET Routing Protocols

Mobile ad-hoc networks can be described as a broad topic in a networking field that faces many challenges and issues to secure the network surroundings. There are different types of routing protocols designed to meet different requirements in ad-hoc networks because of their unorganized nature. Network topology can change frequently depending on the availability, velocity, battery life and the number of nodes in these networks. Over the recent years, security issues in ad-hoc networks have seen a great deal of thought. The vast majority of investigation focuses on the exploration of specific explicit security zones, to make sure the routing protocols are well secured. This study mainly discusses reactive and proactive routing protocols designed for mobile ad-hoc networks and compares some of them with simulation results. Packet delivery ratio, end-to-end delay and throughput values for different simulation environments are analyzed in these simulations. In addition to this, security concerns and possible solutions in ad-hoc networks is also considered deeply.