ABSTRACT

Mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is decentralized wireless network without a pre-existing infrastructure. MANET routing protocols should adjust to changes in the network topology and maintain routing information, so that data can be forwarded to their destinations. In this project, it describes the simulation and performance comparison of different routing protocols which are Dynamic Source Routing (DSR), Ad Hoc On-demand Distance Vector (AODV) and Temporally Ordered Routing Algorithm (TORA) protocol. Using Riverbed Modeler, different scenarios such as varying number of nodes, transmission power, source data rate and physical area can be analyzed by performance metrics such as end-to-end throughput.