期刊名称：International Journal of Computer Technology and Applications
电子版ISSN：2229-6093
出版年度：2013
卷号：4
期号：2
页码：248-256
出版社：Technopark Publications
摘要：The advancement in the field of internet due to wireless networking technologies. It gives rise to many new applications. In the past of few decades, we have seen the advancement in wireless networks. The emerging capabilities of mobile devices have given a new direction to the internet, which decreases the cost and allow us to use infrastructure wireless networks and infrastructure less wireless networks (i.e. Mobile Ad Hoc Wireless Network).With so many applications that MANETs provides us, there are still some challenges that have to overcome..The infrastructureless and the dynamic nature of these networks demands new set of networking strategies to be implemented in order to provide efficient end-to-end communication. This along with the diverse application of these networks in many different scenarios such as battlefield and disaster recovery, have seen MANETs being researched by many different organisations and institutes. MANETs employ the traditional TCP/IP structure to provide end-to-end communication between nodes. One interesting research area in MANET is routing. Routing in the MANETs is a challenging task and has received a tremendous amount of attention from researches. Due to lack of a defined central authority, securitizing the routing process becomes a challenging task thereby leaving MANETs vulnerable to attacks, which results in deterioration in the performance characteristics as well as raises a serious question mark about the reliability of such networks.. In this paper, we provide the history of MANET, challenges (issues) involve in MANET and its some applications and an overview of a wide range of routing protocols proposed. We also provide a performance comparison of all routing protocols and suggest which protocols may perform best in large networks. And also the known routing attacks and the proposed counter measures to these attacks in various works.
