Smart Computing- Book ISBN- 978-81-953658-1-4

Authaors:- Ankit Jasoliya, Nikunj Bhavsar, Apurva Keskar

Abstract :-Ad-hoc networks have lots of challenges than traditional networks. It has challenges like infrastructure less and self-organizing networks. They don't have any fixed infrastructure. In MANETS, there will be no centralized authority to manage the network. Nodes have to rely on other nodes to keep the network connected. In MANET, routing is a critical task due to the highly dynamic environment. Later on, many routing protocols have been proposed for mobile ad hoc networks and prominent among them are DSR, AODV, TORA and NCPR. This research paper provides an overview of these protocols by presenting their limitations, benefits, functionality and characteristics and then makes their comparative analysis to analyze their performance.

Keywords: - A AODV, DSR, mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), topology control algorithm, topology control