Abstract—Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) is collection of multi-hop wireless mobile nodes that communicate with each other without centralized control or established infrastructure. The wireless links in this network are highly error prone and can go down frequently due to mobility of nodes, interference and less infrastructure. Therefore, routing in MANET is a critical task due to highly dynamic environment. In recent years, several routing protocols have been proposed for mobile ad hoc networks and prominent among them are DSR, AODV and TORA. This research paper provides an overview of these protocols by presenting their characteristics, functionality, benefits and limitations and then makes their comparative analysis so to analyze their performance. The objective is to make observations about how the performance of these protocols can be improved.
Index Terms—AODV, DSR, MANET, TORA
Department of Computer Science & Applications, Smt. Aruna Asaf Ali Government Post Graduate College, Kalka-133302, Haryana, India affiliated to Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra (phone: +919467237272; e-mail: suniltaneja.iitd@gmail.com).
Department of Computer Science & Applications, University College, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra-132119, Haryana, India (phone: +919896210014; e-mail: akush20@gmail.com).
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Cite: Sunil Taneja and Ashwani Kush, " A Survey of Routing Protocols in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," International Journal of Innovation, Management and Technology vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 279-285, 2010.