BALANCING STABLE TOPOLOGY AND NETWORK LIFETIME IN AD HOC NETWORKS

Mobile ad-hoc network is an independent system of mobile nodes connected by wireless links forming a short, live, on-the-fly network eve n when access to the Internet is unavailable. Nodes in MANETs generally operate on low power battery devices. These nodes can function both as hosts and as routers. As a host, nodes function as a source and destination in the network and as a router, nodes act as intermediate bridges between the source and the destination giving store-and-forward services to all the neighboring nodes in the network. Easy deployment, speed of development, and decreased dependency on the infrastructure is the main reasons to use ad-hoc network.