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A Survey: Routing Protocols in MANETs

Krupa A Talwar, Benakappa S M, Dr. Yuvaraju B N

Mobile ad hoc network is a collection of wireless nodes that can dynamically be set up anywhere and anytime to exchange information without using any pre-existing network infrastructure. It is a self organized and self configurable network where the mobile nodes move randomly. In MANETs mobile nodes can receive and forward packets as a router and each node operates not only as an end system, but also as a router to forward packets. There is no fixed infrastructure, which results in addition and exclusion of any number of nodes from the network for relatively small networks routing protocols may be sufficient. However, in larger networks either hierarchical or geographic routing protocols are needed. In this survey paper three routing protocols AODV (Ad- Hoc On-Demand Distance Vector), OLSR (Optimized Link State Routing Protocol) and DSR (Dynamic Source Routing Protocol) along with many other algorithms are described briefly.