Study of TORA FOR Mobile Ad-hoc NetworK

Mobile Adhoc Networks [MANETs] involve communication between various mobiles hosts which themselves act as routers and help in transmitting packets to the destination through intermediate nodes which lie within the radio transmission range of each other. Due to high level of dynamism, reliable, fast and energy efficient routing of data packets from the source to the destination is an area of great concern for researches. Science it is an infrastructure network, one cannot rely on use of access points or other infrastructure for routing, thus leaving only one option of building multi-hop routes from source to destination, where intermediate nodes act as routers. Routing in MANETs involves designing a protocol which helps using routing data packets from source to destination with minimum possible hops and minimum battery power consumption of nodes. The main purpose of this paper is to design and implement tora for manet.In this paper, results show that TORA’s inability to handle rapid increases in traffic volumes. TORA performs well in networks where the volume of traffic increases gradually. Keywords—: Ad-hoc, IMEP, MANET, OPNET, TORA.