期刊名称：International Journal of Computer Science & Technology
印刷版ISSN：2229-4333
电子版ISSN：0976-8491
出版年度：2015
卷号：6
期号：4
页码：209-211
语种：English
出版社：Ayushmaan Technologies
摘要：Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) have established a new dimension in field of wireless networks. It allows any number of nodes to communicate with each other in the absence of centralized support. It doesn’t require fixed infrastructure as the mobile nodes are highly mobile. And network topology in MANET is highly dynamic i.e. changes accordingly to the environment. These are much easier to deploy, establish and organize i.e. these are selfconfigurable. These kinds of networks are currently one of the most important and hot research areas due to the wide range of applications (such as emergency, military, rescue operations, local area networks, personal area network, hospitals, and many more). The growing interest in mobile ad hoc network has resulted in many routing protocol proposals. In this paper we will survey the different unicasting routing protocols proposed and designed for mobile ad hoc networks (MANET). Routing protocols used in MANET have to face many challenges due to dynamically changing topologies, route discovery, device discovery, bandwidth constrained, low transmission power and asymmetric links. Due to node mobility and instability and frequently changing topologies,routing became one of the major issue in MANET.
