Survey on MANET: Routing Protocols, Advantages, Problems and Security

Abstract

Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET) is a very powerful field in the progress of Wireless network. Over the past years Wireless ad-hoc network become most stimulating and vital field due to the popularity of mobile devices and wireless network. MANET is a network with many autonomous nodes i.e. mobile devices. MANET uses dynamic topology, wireless links, decentralized network and doesn’t need any cellular infrastructure. The main usage area of MANET is Military scenarios, Sensor Networks, Rescue operations, Student on campus, Conferences etc. MANET is rapidly deployable and self-configuring. Due to highly dynamic environment routing in MANET is a very critical task. This paper shows an overview of routing protocols in MANET. This paper aims at the advantages and problems of MANET with the issue of improving the future security.

KEYWORDS-: MANET, Routing Protocols, Ad-hoc network, Wireless network.