Abstract—Routing is a critical issue in MANET and
therefore, this is the focus of this paper, along with the
performance analysis of its routing protocols. In this paper the
performance of four MANET routing protocols (AODV, DSR,
OLSR and GRP) are compared. To evaluate and validate the
performance of these protocols, a feasibility study in the form of
simulations were carried out. In these experiments, the four
protocols were tested under different scenarios and
circumstances using a simulation tool called OPNET. The
performance of these routing protocols is analyzed based on two
performance metrics: delay and through put. The simulation
results have shown that on average, under heavy FTP traffic
condition, the OLSR protocol outperforms the other three
protocols with respect to the mentioned metrics under two
scenarios (20 and 80 mobile nodes) that have been created in
OPNET.
Index Terms—FTP, MANET, OPNET, routing protocols.
The authors are with the Benghazi University, Libya (e-mail:
a.aneiba@uob.edu.ly, m.melad@uob.edu.ly).
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Cite: Adel Aneiba and Mohammed Melad, "Performance Evaluation of AODV, DSR, OLSR, and GRP MANET Routing Protocols Using OPNET," International Journal of Future Computer and Communication vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 57-60, 2016.
