Behavior Analysis Of Routing Protocols For A Health Decision Support System

Abstract

Mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) is an infrastructure less network, that is a collection of mobile devices connected together without centralized infrastructure that can be configured at any time and any where, it gives the network dynamic topology. The most important thing in MANETs is a routing protocol. MANETs have a three major routing protocols proactive, reactive and hybrid. In this work, the performance of reactive routing protocol Ad hoc on demand Distance Vector (AODV) and proactive routing protocol Destination Sequenced Distance Vector (DSDV) for a health decision support system (HDSS) were evaluated. The major goal of this work is to analyze the performance of well-known MANETs routing protocol in mobility case under low, medium and high density scenario. Hence it becomes important to study the performance of these routing protocols. The performance is analyzed with respect to Average End-to-End Delay, drop packets, Packet Delivery ratio (PDR) and Throughput. Simulation results verify that AODV gives better performance as compared to DSDV.