Study of Network Characteristics Incorporating Different Routing Protocols

Abstract — Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) offer much promise for communication. The routing protocols are designed basically to establish correct and efficient paths between users. In the recent years several routing protocols have been proposed and many of them studied through extensive simulation at different network characteristics. In this paper various protocols like Bellman-Ford, Ad-Hoc on-Demand Routing (AODV), Dynamic Source Routing (DSR), and Ad hoc On Demand Distance Vector (DYMO)have been discussed and compare their Average End-to-End Delay (sec.),Throughput (bits/sec.) and Jitter (sec.)