Performance investigation on three-classes of MANET routing protocols

Authors

Mehran Abolhasan, University of WollongongFollow
Tadeusz A. Wysocki, University of WollongongFollow
Justin Lipman, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

11802

Publication Details

This article was originally published as: Abolhasan, M, Wysocki, T and Lipman, J, Performance investigation on three-classes of MANET routing protocols, 2005 Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications, 3-5 October 2005, 774-778. Copyright IEEE 2005.

Abstract

Routing in Ad-hoc Networks has received significant attention with a number of different routing protocols proposed in recent years. These routing protocols may be classified into three main categories: proactive, reactive and hybrid. Prior work aimed at comparing the performance of routing protocols has mainly fo cused on comparing reactive and proactive protocols [6] [4] [1]. In this paper, we present a simulation study of different routing protocols from all three categories. We also explore the benefits and performance of each routing category. Further, we present a discussion of future research directions for routing in Ad-hoc Networks.