Routing protocols for small scale WLAN based Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs)

Abstract

This paper focuses on the comparative analysis of routing protocols such as Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector Routing System (AODV), Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) and Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR). The analysis is been made against different network parameters like network load, end to end delay and throughput in a small scale Wireless Local Area (WLAN) based Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) scenarios to identify the best performing protocol. Simulation results indicate that OLSR gives minimum network load while AODV gives best throughput and in terms of delay, OLSR is more efficient.