A Review on Various Protocols and Security Issues in MANET

Abstract: Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a collection of large number of miniature devices called sensors nodes. These sensor nodes perform as router in order to communicate with each other. A Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) is collection of autonomously self-organized mobile nodes. In a mobile ad hoc network, nodes communicate with each other using wireless links without pre-existing infrastructure support. Since these nodes move arbitrarily, thus they may experience rapid and unpredictable topology changes. It is quite difficult to find out which protocols may perform best under a number of different network scenarios such as network size and topology etc. The goal of my paper is to present a compressive review of the on various aspects of MANET.

Keywords: Sensor Network, MANET (Mobile Ad hoc Network), Routing Protocol, Security