An Overview of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks for the Existing Protocols and Applications

TL;DR

This paper provides a comprehensive overview of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs), discussing their characteristics, history, routing protocols, and applications, highlighting the need for adaptive routing in dynamic wireless environments.

Contribution

It offers a detailed analysis and comparison of over 13 routing protocols for MANETs, including their characteristics, advantages, and disadvantages, along with potential applications.

Findings

Analysis of 13+ routing protocols for MANETs

Comparison of protocol characteristics and performance

Discussion of applications and services of MANETs

Abstract

Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) is a collection of two or more devices or nodes or terminals with wireless communications and networking capability that communicate with each other without the aid of any centralized administrator also the wireless nodes that can dynamically form a network to exchange information without using any existing fixed network infrastructure. And it's an autonomous system in which mobile hosts connected by wireless links are free to be dynamically and some time act as routers at the same time, and we discuss in this paper the distinct characteristics of traditional wired networks, including network configuration may change at any time, there is no direction or limit the movement and so on, and thus needed a new optional path Agreement (Routing Protocol) to identify nodes for these actions communicate with each other path, An ideal choice way the agreement should not only be able to find the right path, and the Ad Hoc Network must be able to adapt to changing network of this type at any time. and we talk in details in this paper all the information of Mobile Ad Hoc Network which include the History of ad hoc, wireless ad hoc, wireless mobile approaches and types of mobile ad Hoc networks, and then we present more than 13 types of the routing Ad Hoc Networks protocols have been proposed. In this paper, the more representative of routing protocols, analysis of individual characteristics and advantages and disadvantages to collate and compare, and present the all applications or the Possible Service of Ad Hoc Networks.