Performance evaluation of single path (AODV)‎ routing protocol versus multi path (AOMDV)‎ routing protocol by using NS-2

Abstract EN

Wireless mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) technology was defined as a group of wireless mobile hosts forming a temporary network without aid any infrastructure or centralized administration.

Mobile Ad-hoc networks are self-organizing and self-configuring, multihop wireless networks where the structure of a network changes dynamically, this is mainly due to the mobility of the nodes.

Since, there is no centralized administration each mobile host must act as a router to forward packets.

Due to the mobility of the nodes and a destination node might be out of range for source node that transmitting packets, the efficient route is needs to exchange information between different nodes, it's done by using different routing protocols.

So, efficient routing procedures are always needed to find a path between nodes, in order to obtain appropriate transfer to the packets between source node and the destination node.

This paper focuses on the implemented two routing protocols (AODV as a single-path and AOMDV as a multi-path) by used the network simulator version 2 (NS-2), with various number of node, in order to study and evaluate the performance of ad-hoc routing protocols, based on the sex performance metrics : the throughput, the dropped packets, average end-to-end delay, normalizes routing load, packet delivery fraction, and average jitter.