Performance Analysis of Reactive Routing Protocols in MANET under CBR Traffic using NS2

This paper gives a depth analysis of various Reactive Routing Protocols under CBR traffic in the Mobile Ad-Hoc Network. The protocols are DSR, AODV and DSDV. The performance is evaluated based on throughput, packet delivery ratio, normalized routing overhead and average end-to-end delay. This comparison is done by implementing these routing protocols in NS2. This simulation is carried out in different network sizes and by differing the number of nodes.