Compare Three Reactive Routing Protocols In Grid Based Clusterwireless Sensor Network Using Qualnet Simulator

Abstract

This paper is comparingthe performance of three different routing protocols in grid based clustering for wireless sensor network. Sensor network iskeeping limited energy of sensor nodesand limited battery power. However the main task of sensor network energy consumption for sensor nodes. Furthermore grid based sensor working depend on location based that is divided into different parts. In grid based wireless sensor network, cluster head it works like a base station. Cluster zones are collecting all information that is passing through sensor nodes. In this paper, three routing protocols AODV ( Ad-hoc on demand distance vector routing),  DYMO (Dynamic Manet on demand routing ) and DSR (Dynamic source routing) are analyzed and compared by using Qualnet simulator on the basis of performance metrics such as energy consumption in transmit mode, receive mode, idle mode, and residual battery capacity.

Key words- wireless sensor network, IEEE 802.15.4, Routing protocols (AODV, DYMO, DSR), Qualnet 5.2 simulator, CBR.