In the test lab, the study includes the behavior of the network and many services and applications it supports; other aspects of the environment can also be modified in a controlled manner to evaluate how the network will perform under different circumstances. Network designers can test completely new network protocols or make changes to existing one using network simulators in a controlled and reproducible manner. This paper discussed the Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) reactive routing protocol, which was modeled using eight different types of network simulators and an active node count of 80 without any malicious nodes. Based on the analysis of the results of the simulators, Network Simulator 2 (NS2) demonstrated the highest packet delivery rate compared to other simulators.
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