Simulation based comparison between OWL and AODV

MANET is an infrastructure less network with dynamic topology. Topology changes because MANET supports random mobility of nodes within the network. AODV is a well known MANET routing protocol which perform very well in dynamic environment of network. AODV uses BFS to discover path from source to destination by flooding the network. This leads to the congestion in network. Ordered Walk learning routing protocol also a reactive protocols but instead of BFS it uses DFS. This work shows that OWL can perform comparable or better than AODV by comparison between OWL and AODV based on Energy consumption in different phases of routing. Also compare OWL and AODV in term of End to End delay and delivery ratio of routing.