A Survey on various routing protocols in mobile ad hoc networks

Abstract: A Mobile Ad-hoc Network forms the self-configuring wireless network with collection of nodes and these mobile nodes dynamically communicate to other nodes without any centralized infrastructure. Mobile nodes resemble as router and forwards packets to other nodes in the network. 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.

Keywords: MANET, Routing protocols, Proactive, Reactive and Hybrid.