Analysis of Protocol is of prime importance in order to optimize its performance. Performance metrics are useful parameters for analyzing the performance of any routing protocol in Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs). It is generally observed during the simulation of protocols in MANETs that one protocol may performs better with respect to one performance metric as compared to another protocol but its performance may weaken with respect to another performance metric when compared with same protocol. Hence there is a need to evaluate a protocol using a cumulative performance value. This cumulative value for a protocol can be calculated by providing due weightage to different factors based on its performance in various metrics. In this paper a cumulative metric has been proposed. Based on the value of this metric, the overall performance of a protocol can be analyzed and can also be compared to the other protocols.

Protocol, MANET, Metric, Uni-path, Multipath, Simulation

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