A SURVEY ON MANET ROUTING PROTOCOLS

Abstract

Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) are kind of wireless network with self- administrating characteristics, where the nodes get associated in a spontaneous or ad hoc basis. MANET is not an infrastructure based network and there exist no centralized resources. Framing a route between source and destination is a challenging task in MANET. Various protocols are involved in Mobile Ad hoc Network for communicating and transferring of packets from peer to peer networks. Due to mobility of mobile nodes in the network, topology changes continuously, thus each protocol uses different methods for transferring data in network to the end points. This paper provides various types of routing protocols used in MANET and its uses.