Performance Evaluation of Dynamic Source Routing Protocol (DSR) on WSN

Abstract

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) has been regarded as a distinguished Ad Hoc Network that can be used for a specific application. Since a WSN consists of potentially hundreds of low cost, small size and battery powered sensor nodes, it has more potentials than others Ad Hoc networks to be deployed in many emerging areas. A number of routing protocols have been implemented to route the packets in these networks. One of these routing protocols is Dynamic Source Routing protocol (DSR). In this paper, an attempt has been made to evaluate the performance of DSR routing protocol using some simulation network models, to investigate how well this protocol performs on WSNs, in static and mobile environments, using NS-2 simulator. The performance study will focus on the impact of the network size, network density (up to 450 nodes), and the number of sources (data connections). The performance metrics used in this work are average end-to-end delay, packet delivery fraction, routing overheads, and average energy consumption per delivered packet.