1Department of Computer Science, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India
2Jayawant Technical Campus-Jayawant Institute of Business Studies, Pune, India
3Department of Electronic Science, Savitribai Phule University, Pune, India
The need, popularity and easy deployment of MANET with less cost has increase its application areas from military to day-to-day life and research to business. The application uses MANET need best performance. MANETs are autonomous and infrastructureless in which nodes are free to move arbitrary, makes network topology unstable and the routing become complex in such dynamic nature of topology. The set of applications for MANETs is diverse, ranging from small to large-scale networks. The network area scalability is an important consideration while measuring the performance of MANET routing protocols. This paper evaluates the performance of MANET Routing Protocols OLSR, AODV, DSR, GRP and TORA on varying network area size using OPNET simulator. The performance of these routing protocols are measured and compared on ‘Average Routing Load’, ‘Average end-to-end delay’ and ‘Average Throughput’ metrics. The performance rank tables give insight to select better then the best routing protocol for application scenario.
AODV, DSR, GRP, OLSR, TORA, End-to-End Delay, MANET, Routing Load, Throughput
