Performance Analysis of DSR, STAR, ZRP Routing Protocols for a Dynamic Ad-Hoc Network

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Performance Analysis of DSR, STAR, ZRP Routing Protocols for a
Dynamic Ad-Hoc Network
Shivansh Jagga1, Ishita Dey2, Anoop Aparajit3
1Computer Science and Engineering, VIT University(Vellore) ,Email: shivansh.jagga2013@vit.ac.in
2 Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, VIT University(Vellore) ,Email: ishdey2@gmail.com
3 Computer Science and Engineering, VIT University(Vellore) ,Email: anoop.aparjit2013@vit.ac.in
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Abstract—A dynamic ad-hoc network is a collection of
mobile hosts with frequently changing network topology.
Due to the mobility of nodes, interference, multipath
propagation and path loss there is no fixed topology in this
network. Hence some routing protocol is needed to function
properly for these networks. This paper provides an
overview of one of each type of routing and a review of
performance analysis that is acheived on the basis of certain
parameters. The parameters involve throughput, jitter and
end-to-end delay. All simulations are carried out on the
Qualnet Network Simulator.
Keywords—DSR, STAR, ZRP, Routing protocols, MANET,
Ad-hoc network, WANET
I. INTRODUCTION
A wireless ad hoc network (WANET) is a decentralized type
of wireless network. The network is ad hoc because it does
not rely on a pre existing infrastructure, such as routers in
wired networks or access points in managed
(infrastructure) wireless networks.
Although, a network can be classified into static or
dynamic, where a dynamic network is the one in which the
network topology changes over time and the nodes may
come and go, and edges may crash and recover. In a Mobile
ad-hoc Network(MANET), these nodes act both as router
and a host which can instantaneously form networks. Here,
the load on the network changes over time where changes
constantly occur and the system constantly has to adapt to
them.
The main challenge of designing MANETs is to
develop scalable routing protocol which can help to
communicate between mobile nodes. The role of routing
protocols is to find a path which data packets can follow to
transfer data from source to destination.
The routing protocols for Ad Hoc wireless
networks can be broadly classified into four categories-
Routing information update mechanism, use of
temporal information for routing, routing topology, and
utilization of specific resources. Based on routing
information update mechanism the routing protocols can
be reactive, proactive and table driven. A few examples of
those are as shown in the table below :
A. Proactive Routing Protocols
Proactive routing is also known as table - driven routing
protocol. In this type of routing each node maintain the
routing table for containing the latest route information of
any node in the network. All proactive protocols have
different method in the way of propagating information
through all the nodes at the time of topology changes.
These types of routing protocols are not suitable for larger
networks because each node table maintains the entry of
all nodes. These types of routing protocols are: Destination

sequenced distance vector (DSDV), Optimized link state
protocol (OLSR), Bellman ford protocol, etc.
B. Reactive Routing Protocols
It is also known as on- demand routing protocol. Here, in
this type of protocols are discovered the route on-demand
bases when a node want send data packet to other node.
By the flooding route request packet are disseminate
throughout the network in the route discovery phase.
Examples of reactive routing protocols are Ad-hoc On-
demand Distance Vector routing (AODV), Dynamic Source
Routing (DSR) and Location Aided Routing (LAR).
C. Geographic Position Assisted Routing
As suggest the name of this routing protocol used for
proving the correct location of a node in the ad networks.
Global Positioning System (GPS) to make possible to this
work within the few meters range. All GPS equipped nodes
use the same universal clock for global synchronization
between the GPS nodes but there must be additional
concern taken on the mobile environment. Due to mobility,
given location information may or may not be incorrect.
Examples of Geographic Position Assisted Routing are:
GPSR (Greedy Perimeter Stateless Routing), LAR (Location
Aided Routing) etc.
D. Hierarchical Routing Protocols
Hierarchical routing protocols are known as hybrid routing
protocols because these protocols are based on the
combination of proactive and reactive routing protocol.
Actually combination is based on the merits of both types
(proactive, reactive) routing protocols. The hybrid routing
protocols examples are zone routing protocol (ZRP), CGSR
(Clusterhead-Gateway Switch Routing), and HSR
(Hierarchical State Routing).
II. PROTOCOL DESCRIPTION
There has been a considerable amount of erudition put
into experimentations with routing protocols. In MANETs,
every node act as a host and router i.e, it is autonomous in
behavior.
There is a multi-hop radio relaying- once a source node
and destination node for a message is out of the radio
range, the MANETs are capable of multi-hop routing.
Distributed nature of operation for security, routing and
host configuration. A centralized firewall is absent here.
The nodes can join or leave the network anytime, thus the
network topology becomes dynamic in nature.
Mobile nodes are characterised with less memory,
power and light weight features. The reliability, efficiency,
stability and capacity of wireless links are usually inferior
compared with wired links. This shows the unsteady link
bandwidth of wireless links.
All nodes have identical features with similar
responsibilities and capabilities and thence it forms a
totally symmetrical environment.
III. RELATED WORKS
There has been a considerable amount of erudition put
into experimentations with routing protocols to analyze
which perform best under certain conditions. The authors
of [4] concluded that AODV performs best in all aspects
after comparing DSR, DYMO and AODV routing protocols
where DSR has the worst packet-delivery ratio. The
authors of [6] have thought-about 3 routing Protocols
DSR, ZRP & STAR for simulation and the energy
performance metrics, routing power and residual
energy have been thought of in 3 modes (transmitting,
receiving, and idle). In line with the results DSR has most
noise, least energy consumption and throughput
performance is incredibly high. DSR offers higher
knowledge packet delivery magnitude relation and end to
end delay performance compared to ZRP when
additional variety of nodes is applied for simulation. STAR
has minimum noise and lowest memory consumption.
Once the simulation it's determined that DSR is best in
comparison to STAR and ZRP.
IV. SIMULATION SETUP
The comparitive analysis of protocols can be done
by real world experiments or by simulation. Since
simulation is a more viable and feasible option, most of the
research work of ad-hoc networks is performed by using
simulation software. It destroys the need for time
consuming and costly real world implementations. The
simulator which has been used for this research is is
Qualnet 5 that computes the performance of wireless,
wired and mixed platform network and networking
devices. Qualnet is a paid software and the reason for
selecting it is because of its accuracy, speed and portability.
The main aim of the analysis was to match the performance
of DSR, STAR and ZRP in several simulation environments.
The comparison was created by varied the node density
and the simulation setting one at a time and keeping all
the factors to be constant. 3 conditions were thought of.
within the 1st condition, i.e., static, the nodes were
unbroken stationary. Then all the nodes were created
dynamic and therefore the pause time of every node was
virtually negligible. The quality model used was Random
manner purpose quality. A third condition was outlined
wherever the pause time of every and each node was set
every which way. Some nodes were unbroken static
whereas the opposite nodes were allowed to maneuver
every which way with varied pause time. This condition
was assumed to be semi-dynamic. The simulation was
carried on a part of size 1600*1600 square units. The node
density was varied from 25, 50, 75, and 100, 125 in every
case. the quantity of rounds for every condition was ten.

Within the situational UDP (User Datagram Protocol)
affiliation was used and information traffic of Constant
bit rate (CBR) was applied between supply and
destination. The multiple cosmic microwave background
radiation applications were applied over half-dozen totally
different supply nodes – 17, 8, 14, 10, 16, 19 and
destinations nodes -22, 25, 11, 13, 6, 15 severally. Every
simulation was dispensed for three hundred seconds. The
performance metrics used for comparison were turnout,
end- to-end delay, packet delivery magnitude relation
and disturbance. The values for the various parameters is
summarised within the table given below.
V. PERFORMANCE METRICS/ PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS
Average End-to-End Delay End-to-end delay
indicates however long it a packet takes to travel from
the CMB supply to the application layer of the
destination. in step with our simulation results, average
end to end delay with range of nodes (vehicles) variable
from twenty to one hundred for DSR, STAR and ZRP
protocol. The fundamental distinction between STAR
and DSR is extremely less throughout the nodes
variation. Average end to end delay of ZRP is beyond
each STAR and DSR. however when range of nodes
multiplied by 30, STAR is giving lesser end to end delay
than DSR. in case of ZRP, at the start it's giving lesser
end to end delay as compared to DSR and STAR. when
range of nodes increases thirty, there's systematically
increment within the price of end to end delay. In ZRP
protocol routes discovery is slow. Inter-Zone routing
(IERP) is liable for this work. If link is broken during
route rather than using another path, it uses the native
route repair to create a replacement route as in some
reactive protocol. In some cases this route will be
pretty long (in range of hops) and continues to send the
info packets on the long route. Therefore, the end-to-
end delay will increase for these information packets,
leading to multiplied average end-to-end delay for all
information packets.
Throughput The throughput is defined as the
total amount of data a receiver receives from the sender
divided by the time it takes for the receiver to get the last
packet. The throughput is measured in bits per second
(bit/s or bps). Figure shows throughput with range of
nodes variable from twenty to one hundred nodes for
STAR, DSR and ZRP routing protocol. Throughput of DSR is
better than STAR and ZRP.As the range of nodes is
increasing, the value of throughput is additionally
increasing which shows that DSR supports quantifiability.
STAR additionally shows higher throughput as compared
to ZRP. Up to thirty five nodes there's slight distinction
within the throughput of each STAR and ZRP, however
after this, STAR is showing systematic increment in
throughput value. Whereas DSR throughput remains
constant once range of nodes become eighty. Therefore
DSR is the only routing protocol that supports
quantifiability as the number of nodes increasing its
throughput are additionally increased .
Jitter is the variation within the time between
packets incoming, caused by network congestion, temporal
order drift, or route changes. It ought to be less for a
routing protocol to perform better. In DSR, there's
additional probability for interference as source node
initiate route discovery mechanism by broadcasting a
route request packet to its neighbors. According to our
simulation results, ZRP has less average jittering than DSR
routing protocol. The figure shows interference with range
of nodes varied from twenty to a hundred nodes for STAR,
DSR and ZRP routing protocol. Interference of STAR is
lesser than each DSR and ZRP. As the range of nodes is
increasing, the value of interference is additionally
increasing for each ZRP and DSR.

VI. CONCLUSION
Initially, varied routing protocols are surveyed in this
paper. Keeping challenges and problems with Dynamic
ad-hoc networks in our mind, we've chosen 3 routing
protocols to be compared based on their simulation
performance. In this paper, the performance of Position
based routing protocol (STAR), Reactive routing protocol
(DSR) and Hybrid routing protocol (ZRP) is evaluated
using QUALNET 5.1 simulator on urban situation. The
performance of the protocols was measured with
relevance metrics like noise, end to end delay and
throughput on the premise of variable range of nodes.
Simulations were administered with identical topologies
and running completely different protocols on the
moving vehicles. The results of the simulation indicate
that performance of the STAR protocol is superior to
both DSR, ZRP protocols. It's additionally discovered that
the performance is better especially once the amount of
nodes is magnified. In case of output DSR perform higher
than both ZRP and STAR. However in other 2
performance metrics STAR outperformed in jitter and
end to end Delay.
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