Performance analysis of AODV and AOMDV routing protocols on scalability for MANETs

Abstract

In the world of computer networks, routing protocols of mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) draw an increasing attention. One of the challenging components of routing in MANETs is accomplishing scalability which defines the performance ability of a routing protocol when one or more network parameters grow in value. In this chapter, two reactive routing protocols-Ad hoc On-demand Distance Vector (AODV) and Ad hoc On-demand Multipath Distance Vector (AOMDV) are chosen to show their performance on scalability by changing number of nodes. Also their comparative analysis is performed through simulation using ns-2 on different metrics like end-to-end delay, throughput, packet delivery fraction (PDF). Results show that AOMDV performs better to AODV when the number of nodes is increased. © 2014 Springer India.