Performance Evaluation of DSDV Routing Protocol with CSMA/CA Strategy in Ad Hoc Network

Samar T. AL-Ani

Abstract: An ad hoc network is a wireless network that does not depend on fixed wired infrastructure. And because of the limited range of packet transmission and reception in a wireless network, the routing protocol is used to expedite communication within the network by finding optimal route between source and destination nodes. In this paper we evaluate Destination-Sequenced Distance-Vector Routing (DSDV) which is a proactive routing protocol where each node maintains routing information for all known destinations, and including CSMA/CA protocol along with RTS/CTS exchanges mechanism to increase the number of successful sending packets and decrease collisions within WLAN, This method achieves strong performance in terms of throughput especially in crowded networks.

Keywords: MANET, Ad hoc, DSDV, CSMA/CA, RTS/CTS