Reactive Routing Protocols in Mobile Ad hoc Networks: A Survey

Abstract

A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a dynamic wireless network that consists of mobile nodes communicating in the routing without any infrastructure. Routing is one of the interesting areas in MANETs. Routing in the MANET is a challenging task and selecting one routing protocol with all suitable features is difficult. A growing attention in MANETs is providing stable routes with long route lifetime, low control overhead, low end to end delay and high packet delivery ratio and etc. In this paper, we provide an overview and comparison of different reactive routing protocols for MANETs