Experimental Analysis of OLSR Routing Protocol and Performance Evaluation Using NS-2 Simulator

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) is a collection of wireless moving nodes which communicate with each other and exchange data without any fixed base station or without the need of any kind of wired backbone network. These design characteristics make routing in wireless network a critical issue as routing protocols adopted in wireless network is completely different from wired network in which a backbone router determines the routing path. In this paper we discussed a OLSR routing protocol for routing path determination as well as we measured the various performance oriented parameters using NS2 simulator. During the research implementations, we also use trace graph, a open source tool for generation of graphs of various statistics such as end to end delay, jitter, throughput etc. This study presents the sequence of steps which highlight the adoption of OLSR routing based on the number of nodes and statistics generated in simulation environment.