Analyzing performance of proactive and reactive routing protocols for Manets

Mobile ad hoc network is a collection of wireless mobile nodes dynamically forming a temporary network without the use of any existing network infrastructure or centralized administration number of routing protocols like Proactive and Reactive protocols have been implemented. Various research communities are working in field of MANET and trying to adopt the protocols and technology in other applications as well. In this paper, we study and compare the performance of the proactive and reactive routing protocols DSDV and DSR. For experimental purposes, we have considered network size 50 nodes and illustrate the performance of the routing protocol across Packet Delivery Ratio parameter. The comparison has been done by using simulation tool NS2 which is the main simulator, NAM (Network Animator) and xgraph which is used for preparing the graphs from the trace files.