MANET is a autonomous system of mobile hosts connected by wireless links of nodes characterized by energy limited, bandwidth-constrained, decentralized administration and dynamic topology. For such scalable networks, providing consistent QoS and high performance in all scenarios is a non-trivial task. Analysis has been done to find the efficiency of a variety of protocols[1] like proactive, reactive and hybrid basing on the comparative study of different performance differentials like

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... , end-to-end delay and jitter. Simulation results of various scenarios with varying data traffic and mobility patterns using the Qualnet 6.1 network simulator is derived and ascertained the protocol which is efficient in defined metrics.