Survey On Different Types of Routing Protocol in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Dr. Krunal Sudhirbhai Bhavsar

Abstract: Research Paper

Keywords: In recent years mobile ad hoc networks have become very popular and lot of research is being done on different aspects of MANET. MANET is a dynamically reconfigurable wireless network with no fixed infrastructure. Each node acts as a router and host and it moves in an arbitrary manner in many ad hoc networks. There are different aspects which are taken for research like routing, synchronization, power consumption, bandwidth considerations etc. There are different routing protocols proposed for MANETs which makes it quite difficult to determine which protocol is suitable for different network conditions. There are a number of issues which affect the reliability of Ad - hoc networks and limit their viability for different scenarios; lack of centralized structure within MANET requires that each individual node must act as a router and is responsible for performing packet routing tasks; this is done using one or more common routing protocols across the MANET therefore the routing in MANETs is a key issue. The major reason for this is the constant change in network topology because of high degree of node mobility. A number of protocols have been developed to accomplish this task. In this paper we will investigate and compare the performance of DSDV, DSR, ZRP routing protocols on basis of various parameters. In this paper I have chosen each category routing protocol. Our aim is to compare all the Routing protocols based upon parameter and provides an overview of different routing protocols proposed in literature.