A Survey on Performance Evaluation of MANET Routing Protocols

The task of finding and sustaining routes in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETS) is an important factor in determining the efficiency of any MANET protocol. MANET characteristically is an autonomous system of mobile nodes connected by wireless links without any centralised infrastructure. The absence of fixed infrastructures and host mobility, thus network may experience rapid and unpredictable topology changes. Hence, routing is required in order to perform communication between the entire networks. There are several routing protocols namely proactive, reactive and hybrid etc. In this paper we will discuss the active research work on these routing protocols and its performance evaluation. To this end, we adopt a simulation approach, which is more suitable to this kind of analysis