Brief Overview of Ad Hoc Routing Protocols

Abstract

Manets are self configuring networks. Why manets are self configuring networks? It's because they possess they dynamic toplogy. it is difficult to predict the topology of manets. There are numerous applicable protocols for ad hoc networks, but one confusing problem is the vast number of separate protocols. This research paper deals with a classification of ad hoc routing protocols and also presents some specified protocols according to that classification. Presented protocols are selected according to an entity formed by this paper The emphasis of this paper is not to present protocols in detail but to present main features of wide variety of different protocols and evaluate their suitability and tradeoffs.