Survey of Load Balancing and Load Sharing through AOMDV Protocol in MANET

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) are infrastructure less networks, dynamically formed by an autonomous system of mobile nodes that are connected via wireless links. The routers are free to move randomly and organize themselves arbitrarily; thus, the network's wireless topology may change rapidly and unpredictably MANET has no centralized control for distribution of load properly so Load Balancing becomes one of the most important research areas in the field of MANET. Load Balancing is the process of improving the performance of a network through a redistribution of load among different nodes. If a network is heavily loaded without any load balancing capability, it degrades the performance by causing Congestion, Delay and resource loss in network. A variety of algorithms have recently emerged that meet these requirements and were successfully applied to heavily loaded problems. This survey explores various load balancing protocols for efficient packet transmission and communication in MANETs. In recent years, multi-path routing protocols have attained more attention in mobile ad hoc networks as compared to other routing schemes due to their abilities and efficiency in improving bandwidth of communication, increasing delivery reliability, responding to congestion and heavy traffic.