A Comprehensive Review of Mobile Adhoc Networks (MANETS)
Manjot Kaur, Anand Nayyar · 2013
A Mobile Adhoc Network (MANET) is a complex self configurable wireless network consisting of mobile devices. This network allows devices to work without any fixed infrastructure, nodes in this act as router as well as host. This concept has given introduction to various new technologies have become a boon for the people since this provides tremendous support in day to day work. MANETS are providing a huge area of research which is concluded in this paper. This paper also insight the various security challenges, attacks that various protocol designers or developer face while deploying any MANET, various protocols through which MANET is deployed is also concluded in this paper. This paper also reviews the various characteristics, applications of MANETS. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of Simulation for MANETS using various commercial and open source simulation tools like NS2, OPNET, and QUALNET etc. The pros and cons of various simulation tools are also presented in this paper.