Review and Analysis of Reactive Routing Protocols in Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET)

摘要

Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) are key elements of wireless networking having mobile nodes which associate on an extemporaneous or ad hoc basis. Mobile nodes are free to move randomly. MANETs are both self-forming and self-healing, enabling peer-level communications between mobile nodes without reliance on centralized resources or fixed infrastructure. A centralized arbitrator or server does not present in an ad hoc network. In MANET, it was assumed that each mobile node is moving with relative speed in random directions. Because of that there is no long term guaranteed path from any one node to other node.