Performance characteristics of DSR, AODV and AOMDV Routing Protocols for MANETs using ns-2: A simulation Study

Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (MANET) is a group of mobile hosts without the support of any fixed network infrastructure and centralized administration. In this paper we have presented brief description of routing protocols and analysis of the behavior of routing protocols for different scenarios. It then discusses the effect these differences have on the design and evaluation of network control protocols with an emphasis on routing performance evaluation considerations. From our simulation results we have found that in general performance of DSR is better than AODV and AOMDV even for complex scenarios.