Scenario Based Performance Analysis of AODV and DSDV in Mobile Adhoc Network

A mobile Adhoc network(MANET) is formed by a group of autonomous mobile nodes connected by wireless link without centralized control or established infrastructure. Routing protocols for adhoc networks are typically evaluated using simulation, since the deployment of adhoc network is relatively rare. In this paper, using a simulation tool ns-2 we make a comparison between AODV and DSDV protocols for CBR traffic in mobile ad hoc networks. We analyze the performance of the routing protocol after extracting data from trace file. There are many languages which can be used for analyzing data. We have used AWK scripting language and Java code for extracting data from trace file. The analysis is done for generating various performance metrics like packet delivery fraction, average end-to-end delay, packet loss, packet delay, routing overhead, throughput, route acquisition time.