Performance Evaluation of both DSR and SSR Routing Protocols on Various Wireless Networks.

An Ad-hoc network is a collection of mobile nodes, which are forming a network without requiring any pre-established infrastructure. A number of protocols have been developed insofar to facilitate the administration, management and operation of such networks; for packet routing, in particular, two of the most widespread protocols are DSR (Dynamic Source Routing) and SSR (Signal Stability Routing). In this work, we use simulation to assess and compare the performance of these two protocols. Although the approaches taken by these protocols share a considerable number of common features, our simulation has shown that differences in performance figures do exist, which may be attributed either to implementation issues or interlayer operations. In our study, we have considered different network loads, number of nodes within the network and mobility parameters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]