A Review of Broadcasting Methods for Mobile Ad Hoc Network
Karthikeyan Natesapillai, Vadivel Palanisamy, K. Duraiswamy · SSRN Electronic Journal · 2012
Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (MANET) is a collection of wireless mobile hosts forming a temporary network without the aid of any stand-alone infrastructure or centralized administration. Mobile Ad-hoc networks are self-organizing and self-configuring multi hop wireless networks where, the structure of the network changes dynamically. This is mainly due to the mobility of nodes. The Nodes in the network not only acts as hosts but also as routers that route data to or from other nodes in network. In mobile ad-hoc networks where there is no infrastructure support as is the case with wireless networks, and since a destination node might be out of range of a source node transmitting packets; a routing procedure is always needed to find a path so as to forward the packets appropriately between the source and the destination. Network wide broadcasting is an important function in MANETs, which attempts to deliver packets from a source node to all other nodes in the network. Network wide broadcasting provides route establishment and control functionality for a number of unicast and multicast protocols. This paper discusses a broad range of research issues such as routing and routing protocols and different broadcasting approaches in MANET environment.