International Conference on Research Trends in Computer Technologies 2013 |
Foundation of Computer Science USA |
ICRTCT - Number 2 |
February 2013 |
Authors: S. Sivagurunathan, K. Prathapchandran |
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S. Sivagurunathan, K. Prathapchandran . A Comparative Study on Reactive or On Demand Routing Protocols in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. International Conference on Research Trends in Computer Technologies 2013. ICRTCT, 2 (February 2013), 15-19.
Mobile Ad hoc network simply MANET is a collection of mobile nodes that are connected together over a wireless medium that do not depend on any fixed infrastructure. Mobile nodes in the MANET are moving arbitrarily hence the topology of network may change rapidly. Nodes may also act as routers in order to forward the packets to other node and also each node in the network depends on other nodes. In order to perform routing among the mobile nodes, routing protocol is needed. The main goal of routing protocol is efficient route establishment between any given pair of nodes. So the message could reach the destination on time and without loss of packets. In this paper we present various Reactive or On Demand routing protocols such as AODV, DSR, and TORA and discussed their route establishment and maintenance and also discusses their advantage and disadvantage. Finally we have done a comparative study on these protocols.