Abstract

MANET is a self-motivated mobile wireless network that can be created exclusive of any former support. The challenge of MANET is to design robust routing algorithms which will satisfy all or few routing properties. Routing protocol in MANET can be categorized in various approaches depending upon network structure, communication model, routing strategy. Thus, an ad-hoc network is described as self-organizing or self-configuring multi-hop wireless networks. There exist intermediate nodes acting as routers between the communicating pair of nodes. Thus, the nodes are found to operate both in the form of hosts and routers.This article presents a survey of route aggregation as well as single /multipath routing algorithms, its advantages, and limitations. Researchers are attracted to rectify, design & develop concrete, routing algorithms which will fulfill the adequacy requirement of MANET users.

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