Performance Comparison of Routing protocols for MANETs.

Abstract

This paper focuses the study of different routing protocols used in computer networks. A routing protocol is a protocol that specifies how routers communicate with each other, disseminating information that enables them to select routes between any two nodes in a computer network. The choice of route is done by routing algorithms. Each router possesses prior knowledge of networks that has been directly related. A routing protocol shares this information first among immediate neighbors, and then throughout the network. By this way, routers gain knowledge of topology of network. There are many routing protocols used for routing purposes like RIP, EIGRP and OSPF. In order to reach results and compare them, Optimized Network Engineering Tool (OPNET MODELER) was used.