Simulation Based Performance Analysis of Proactive, Reactive and Hybrid Routing Protocols in Wireless Sensor Network

Abstract

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) frameworks assemble an entryway that gives remote availability back to the wired world and conveyed node. Finding appropriate routes in a network is the main objective considered for WSN. Many routing protocols have been developed for selecting efficient and reliable paths but it is strenuous to tell which protocol acts better for various network frameworks. Simulations are performed in WSN by using different software or simulators for analyzing the routing protocols. In this research work, extensive performance analysis has been done on three types of routing protocols. Performance evaluation on Proactive routing protocol (DSDV and OLSR), Reactive routing protocol (AODV and AOMDV) and Hybrid protocol (ZRP) with a changeable network environment have been done in this paper. The performance measuring is analyzed on the basis of throughput, end-to-end delay, normalized routing load, average jitter and transmit energy consumption depends by changing the number of nodes and pause time. Five different performance parameters have made this work unique as well as help to the proper understanding of the working procedure of three categories routing protocols. The performance has been calculated with the help of network simulator NS-2.35.