AZRP: An Advanced Zone Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Network

In MANET, Ad-hoc routing protocols can be classified into three groups Pro-active, Reactive and Hybrid routing protocol. ZRP is one of the famous Hybrid routing protocols. To enhance the ZRP in this paper, we propose AZRP (Advanced Zone Routing Protocol). AZRP is combination of two routing protocol such as SBZRP and AOZDV. Using both the protocol as well as power-Aware, we can enhance both Intra and Inter Zone of the ZRP. SBZRP reduces the network load by limiting the number of control packets, when the protocol searches for a new route. AOZDV creates a zone using traffic and power information to enhance the AODV. In MANET, routing protocols have to face the challenge of frequently changing topology, low transmission power and asymmetric links. Both proactive and reactive routing protocols prove to be inefficient under these circumstances. The Zone Routing protocol (ZRP) combines the advantages of the proactive and reactive approaches by maintaining an up to date topological map of a zone centered on each node.