Performance Measurement and Analysis of MANET Routing Protocols on nodes Scalability Patil Gouri M.1, Kumar Ajay H.2, Shaligram A. D.3 1Department of Computer Science, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune 2Jayawant Technical Campus-Jayawant Institute of Business Studies, Pune 3Department of Electronic Science, Savitribai Phule University Online published on 4 August, 2018. Abstract Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) is one of the Ad hoc Wireless Networks. MANETs are autonomous and infrastructureless in which mobile nodes can move freely in arbitrary pattern, so topology is changing frequently. This dynamic nature of topology makes the routing protocol design complex. More and more applications are deployed in MANET in which nodes are in and out more frequently making the MANETs size scalable. This scalability is an important consideration while measuring the performance of MANET routing protocols. Selecting or measuring the efficient MANET routing protocol is a challenge for the application selected to deploy on MANET due to dynamic nature of topology and network size. This paper evaluates the performance of MANET Reactive Routing Protocols AODV and DSR while considering node scalability in the network using NS-2 simulator. The comparative analysis of the results are considered to understand the Routing Load, Average end-to-end delay and Throughput for AODV and DSR routing protocols for the selection of suitable routing protocol for different applications having varying nature of node density. It is observed that AODV perform better in scalable MANET than DSR where throughput is more important rather than load and end-to-end delay. Top Keywords AODV, DSR, End-to-End Delay, MANET, Routing Load, Throughput. Top |