A Review on Mobile AD HOC Networks

A MANET is an autonomous group of mobile users that communicate over reasonably slow wireless links. The network topology may vary rapidly and unpredictably over time, because the nodes are mobile. The network is decentralized, where all network activity, including discovering the topology and delivering messages must be executed by the nodes themselves. Hence routing functionality will have to be incorporated into the mobile nodes. MANET is a kind of wireless ad-hoc network and it is a self-configuring network of mobile routers (and associated hosts) connected by wireless links ? the union of which forms an arbitrary topology. Such a network may operate in a standalone fashion, or may be connected to the larger Internet Problems in Ad Hoc Networks.