Routing Protocols for Ad Hoc Mobile Networks

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Introduction
Wireless networks have gained immense popularity since its advent in 1970s and even more prominently since the last decade. Mobile wireless networks currently have two implementation architectures: infrastructured networks infrastructureless networks[1].
In the network architecture for Infrastructured networks, there are fixed wired gateways, known as base stations installed across the desired coverage area. A device within the network connects to the nearest accessible (the one with the strongest signal) gateway. When the mobile device moves to a position which is beyond the range of the currently associated base station, it switches its connectivity to another in-range base station. This process is called handoff, which allows non-disruptive connectivity to the mobile users throughout the network [1].
The other variant of mobile wireless networks is infrastructureless networks, usually referred to as Mobile ad hoc networks (MANET). Networking systems without a fixed backbone are called Mobile Ad Hoc systems. These Ad Hoc systems are a collection of dynamically placed mobile nodes such that the connectivity between the nodes keeps fluctuating. Since there are no fixed routers, the nodes in the ad hoc network work as routers which determine and manage the connectivity to other nodes in the network [1]. To establish connectivity within the network, a dynamic and effective routing protocol is required to generate routing tables that locates the changing routes between the mobile nodes and establishes efficient routed between them.
While designing mobile ad hoc routing protocols, its limitations need to be catered such as the protocol must maintain loop free paths through multiple disjoint routes and have control ...

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