Mobility Based Proactive and Reactive Routing Algorithm in Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs)

A Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) is a selfconfigured, infrastructure less network. In MANETs wireless mobile nodes form a dynamic temporary network Due to mobility of nodes routing is a very critical issue in MANETs. Finding and selecting an optimal and reliable path that can exist as long as possible is a complex task. In the process of path selection and path failure, most of the routing protocols perform blind flooding. In blind flooding (broadcasting) resource utilization is a critical parameter. In this paper, for limiting the number of broadcast control packets, we will use mobility as a limiting parameter. By using speed of node mobility as parameter for route discovery, approach of route discovery become more distributed and localized. In this paper we will propose one proactive and one reactive routing algorithm which are based on speed of route mobility as a selection criterion for making independent decision for route discovery. This process is termed as route discovery through self selection. Keywords-Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET), Hybrid Routing, Dynamic Source Routing