Comparison of proactive and reactive routing protocol in mobile adhoc network based on “Ant-algorithm”

Future of mobile adhoc network (MANET) is predicted grow due to the capability of network manage independently. One of important role in this network is routing protocols. A number of research about algorithm to find the best path in transmit of data has been done. Some routing protocol used in MANET, such as AODV, DSR and DSDV. This paper presents about investigation result of AODV, DSR and DSDV that applied an Ant-algorithm which are AODV-Ant, DSR-Ant, and DSDV-Ant. DSDV represents of proactive routing type protocol based on table driven, while AODV and DSR represents of reactive routing protocol type based on demand. Performance analysis includes end to end delay, throughput, routing overhead and hop count for various scenario of node velocity, pause time and network traffic. The result shows that proactive routing protocol could improve performance than the reactive routing protocol and more suitable with Ant-algorithm. However, applied an Ant-algorithm on routing protocol is cause to increased of routing overhead and need more computation of each nodes to resulted the best route.