Evaluation of AODV, DSR and DSDV Routing Protocols for Static WSNs: A Simulation Study
Ali A.S. Ihbeel, Hasein Issa Sigiuk
Electronic Devices, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2012.
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Link: http://www.dline.info/ed/fulltext/v1n2/2.pdf
Abstract:
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have been regarded as distinguished Ad Hoc networks that can be used for specific applications. Since a WSN consists of potentially hundreds of low cost, small size and battery powered sensor nodes, it has more potentials than other Ad Hoc networks to be deployed in many emerging applications. The WSNs raised many new challenges such as: the design of embedded sensors and wireless networking technologies, in other words the routing protocols. Scalability of routing protocols used in WSNs is a critical issue due to the extremely high node numbers and relatively high node density. A good routing protocol has to be scalable and adaptive to the changes in the network topology. Thus protocols must perform well as the network grows larger or as the workload increases. Many Ad Hoc routing protocols such as Ad Hoc On demand Distance Vector (AODV), Dynamic Source Routing (DSR), and Destination Sequenced Distance Vector (DSDV), have been proved to perform well on the Mobile Ad Hoc networks (MANETs). In this paper, a performance study is carried out, using some simulation network models, to investigate how well AODV, DSR, and DSDV routing protocols work on WSNs, in static environments, using NS-2 simulator. The performance study focuses on the impact of the network size, network density (up to 500 nodes), number of sources (data connections), and the type of generated traffic model. The performance metrics to be used in this work are average end-to-end delay, packet delivery fraction (PDF), routing overheads (ROH), and average energy consumption per received packet.