Author : Anamika and Umesh Kumar

To find and maintain routes between nodes in a dynamic topology, using minimum resources is a challenge in mobile ad-hoc network. A number of protocols have been developed to accomplish this task. In this context, only few of the proposed solutions used for routing of packets from source to destination are commonly analyzed and evaluated. In this Paper, various routing protocols are analyzed critically which are reported in available literature. This will help to understand problem sphere of protocols better and can be used to widen already proposed routing protocols or to propose new efficient routing solutions that focus on security and Quality of Service parameters.

Keywords: Location Aided Routing, MANETs, Reactive Routing, Table Driven Routing.

Article published in International Journal of Current  Engineering  and Technology, Vol.3,No.2 (June- 2013)