期刊名称：International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technologies
电子版ISSN：0975-9646
出版年度：2015
卷号：6
期号：5
页码：4587-4592
出版社：TechScience Publications
摘要：In the recent past there has been increasing research in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) as they became ubiquitous. The nodes in MANET are resource constrained and designing efficient routing strategies for such network remains a challenging endeavour. Routing strategy when designed intelligently, the network lifetime can be increased besides optimizing utilization of limited resources available. A plethora of routing protocols is already available for MANET. They have been classified into different categories like reactive, proactive and hybrid routing protocols. The routing information update is the basis for this classification. Proactive protocols maintain routing information while reactive protocols do not. However, the hybrid routing protocols leverage the good features of both justifying their category name. One difficulty with routing protocols in MANET is to know which protocol performs best in which situation. Since protocols exhibit advantages and disadvantages based on certain context, it is quite difficult to determine. This paper attempts to provide insights into the facts of proactive, reactive and hybrid routing protocols that are used in MANET. Besides, this paper also throws light into other routing protocols that were proposed from time to time. We intend to extend this research to have experiments in MANET using different protocols in terms of route discovery and route maintenance.
关键词：Mobile communications; mobile ad hoc networks;routing protocols; comparison.
