Compare Three Reactive Routing Protocols in Grid based Cluster Wireless Sensor Network using Qualnet Simulator

Abstract

This paper is comparing the performance of three different routing protocols in grid based clustering for wireless sensor network. Sensor network is keeping limited energy of sensor node send 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 thatis 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 simulatoron the basis of performance metrics such as energy consumption in transmit mode,receive mode, idle mode, and residual battery capacity.Keywords: Wireless sensor network, IEEE 802.15.4, routing protocols (AODV,DYMO, DSR), qualnet 5.2 simulator, CBR