期刊名称：International Journal of Computer Science & Technology
印刷版ISSN：2229-4333
电子版ISSN：0976-8491
出版年度：2013
卷号：4
期号：2
页码：7-9
语种：English
出版社：Ayushmaan Technologies
摘要：Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (MANET) is a collection of mobile wireless nodes, which communicate to each other using a wireless physical medium without having a route to a pre- existing network infrastructure. Mobile means moving and Ad Hoc means temporary without any fixed infrastructure, so mobile ad hoc networks are a kind of temporary networks in which nodes are moving without any fixed infrastructure or centralized administration. The highly dynamic nature of MANET coupled with limited bandwidth and battery power imposes severe restrictions on routing protocols especially on achieving the routing stability. Due to all these constraints, designing of a routing protocol is still a challenging task for researchers. Many protocols are reported in this field but it is difficult to decide which one is efficiently best. In this paper an attempt has been made to evaluate and compare the performance of Proactive routing protocols (Bellman-Ford) and Hybrid routing protocols (ZRP) on different parameters using QualNet 5.0 Simulator. The results show that neither of the protocol is better in all situations. For some parameters one outperforms the other and vice-versa as reported in the paper.
