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A mobile ad-hoc network is an infrastructure less network of mobile devices that self-regulatethemselves. The paper aims to examine the three main ad-hoc routing protocols-DSDV, AODV and DSRusing NS2.34. Theperformance of these protocols is analysed and compared on the basis of simulation results with respect to varying number of nodes and varying simulation area. The various performance metrics-packet delivery ratio, average end to end delay, throughput and packet loss percentage are computed with varying number of nodes and network area. Thesimulation results show that DSR outperforms in terms of packet delivery ratio and DSDV leads to greatest packet loss percentage. Consequently, DSDV is preferred in smaller network while DSR and AODV is preferable in a large or dynamic network. However, the performance of protocols degrades with increase in simulation area.

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