PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF ROUTING METHODS IN WIRELESS ADHOC NETWORKS

Abstract

An ad hoc network is a collection of wireless mobile nodes dynamically forming a temporary network without the use of any existing network infrastructure or centralized administration. Due to the limited transmission range of wireless network interfaces, multiple network hops may be needed for one node to exchange data with another across the network. In recent years, a variety of new routing protocols targeted specifically at this environment have been developed, but little performance information on each protocol and no realistic performance analysis of these protocol is available. This dissertation presents the results of a detailed packet-level simulation analysing two multi-hop wireless ad hoc network routing protocols that are Geographical Routing and Dynamic Source Routing protocol.