ANALYSIS OF ZONE ROUTING PROTOCOL IN MANET

Sandeep Kaur, Supreet Kaur

Abstract: MANET is combination of wireless mobile nodes that communicate with each other without any kind of centralized control or any device or established infrastructure. Therefore MANET routing is a critical task to perform in dynamic network. Without any fixed infrastructure, wireless mobile nodes dynamically establish the network. Routing Protocols helps to communicate a mobile node with the other nodes in the network by sending or receiving the packets. This research paper provides the overview of ZRP by presenting its functionality. The performance of ZRP (Zone Routing Protocol) is analyzed on the basis of parameters Throughput, Load, Data Dropped and Delay using simulator OPNET 14.0.

Keywords: MANET, Routing Protocols, ZRP

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2013.0209078