A Comparative Study on Reactive or On Demand Routing Protocols in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Shanmugam Sivagurunathan, K. Prathapchandran · 2013
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