A major issue with ad-hoc networks is energy consumption since nodes

are usually mobile and battery-operated. In this project we compared the

performance of ad-hoc routing protocols in a network where each participating

mobile node has a given battery life and will shut-down when a threshold is

reached. We studied two routing protocols, Dynamic Source Routing (DSR), and

Destination-Sequenced Distance-Vector Routing (DSDV), by comparing the node

termination rate as well as the over-all goodput of the network. From the

simulations we observed that in high node density, DSR performs better than

DSDV. The performance gap can be decreased by smaller number of nodes in the

network or more path loss and shadowing variance.