A Survey on Dynamic Source Routing Protocol in Wireless Ad hoc Network

Abstract— Availability of limited resources and stringent characteristics of MANET, has made designing an efficient and reliable routing strategy a challenging task. The strategy to design a routing protocol should take into consideration, limited resources availability and be adaptive to the variablenetwork conditions such as traffic density, network size and network partitioning. In addition, for certain applications, it is required to satisfy Quality of Service (QoS) as demanded. This paper discusses a reactive routing protocol called Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) protocol and its variants to satisfy different demands of multi-hop wireless ad hoc networkapplications using mobile nodes. Keywords— On Demand Routing, Ad Hoc Network, Dynamic Source Routing, Quality of Service