Taxonomy of routing protocols in MANETs

Abstract

Mobile Ad Hoc network (MANET) is a collection of smart mobile nodes, which form a dynamic and autonomous system. These nodes communicate wirelessly in a self-organized, self-configured and self-administered manner. Routing protocol is the main building block in route establishment and traffic delivery, which must be accomplished anywhere and anytime, between a pair of source and destination. Therefore, research interest in MANETs has been growing, and particularly the design of MANET routing protocols has gained a lot of interest. Furthermore, constantly changing network topology, limited bandwidth and energy issues make the task of routing in MANETs a challenging one. In this paper we provide the taxonomy of routing protocols for MANETs, which constitute the main key behind the design of routing protocols process.