Simulation based evaluation of MANET routing protocols for static WSN

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 word the routing protocols. Many Ad Hoc routing protocols such as Ad Hoc On demand Distance Vector (AODV), Dynamic Source Routing Protocol (DSR), and Destination Sequenced Distance Vector (DSDV), which have been developed particularly for the wireless mobile Ad Hoc networks (MANETs), have been proved to perform well on MANETs. In this paper, a performance study will be extended, 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 will focus on the impact of the network size, network density (up to 500 nodes), and the number of sources (data connections). The performance metrics to be used in this work are average end-to-end delay, packet delivery fraction, routing overheads, and average energy consumption per received packet.