A Comprehensive Study on Reactive and Proactive Routing Protocols under different performance Metric

Abstract

Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET) has recently gained enormous studies attention because of their large potential of reliability and scalability in various fields. Besides, this Ad-hoc network is very flexible in nature which makes it more valuable for the researcher in the research area. Ad-hoc network provides better mobility due to which it uses dynamic topology. The routing protocols possess a very important role in any MANET. The routing protocols are divided into three big categories reactive protocols (on demand), proactive protocols (table-driven) and hybrid. The different routing protocols were created, which perform differently under different scenarios. This survey paper investigates the reactive and proactive routing protocol performance under different scenarios. The routing protocols like AODV, DSR, DSDV, AODV Modified (R-AODV) and TORA are compared under different parameters. The NS2 simulation tool is used for the simulation purpose. This paper shows the previous work done by the researchers in the field of reactive and proactive routing protocol based on its comparative analysis. Our results, contrarily to previously reported studies conducted on the same routing protocols, show the superiority of reactive over proactive protocols in routing such traffic under different network scenarios and parameters.