Comprehensive survey and comparative experimental performance gain of AODV, DSR and OLSR in MANETs

Abstract

Routing is a crucial issue in MANET due to the absence of fixed infrastructure and centralized administration. Many routing protocols like Adhoc On-demand Distance Vector (AODV), Dynamic Source Routing (DSR), and Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR) have been proposed to find the optimized path from source node to destination nodes. This paper analyzed the performance of AODV, DSR and OLSR on the basis of sent packets, received packets and Quality of Service (QoS) metrics like throughput, end to end delay, packet delivery ratio, packet loss ratio with varying network load and network size.