Mobile sink node properly used in routing protocols can improve network performance. Thus we investigate the state-of-the-art mobile sink based query-based and location-based routing protocols. The latter strategy can be further classified into backbone-based and rendezvous-based routing protocols. In this paper, we first describe the main principles of the most representative routing strategie...

Mobile Ad hoc networks are the collection of wireless nodes that can exchange information dynamically among them without pre existing fixed infrastructure. Because of highly dynamic in nature, performance of routing protocols is an important issue. In addition to this routing protocols face many challenges like limited battery backup, limited processing capability and limited memory resources. ...

Many routing protocols for wireless sensor networks based on location information have been proposed such as GPSR, LAR, IGF, etc. When these routing protocols are used with existing MAC protocols, however, the sleep and wake-up scheduling of many MAC protocols degrades the routing protocol performance because of the long latency for periodic scheduling and synchronization overhead. In this pape...

Mobile Ad hoc networks are the collection of wireless nodes that can exchange information dynamically among them without pre existing fixed infrastructure. Because of highly dynamic in nature, performance of routing protocols is an important issue. In addition to this routing protocols face many challenges like limited battery backup, limited processing capability and limited memory resources. ...

Mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) have no fixed infrastructure, so all network operations such as routing and packet forwarding are done by the nodes themselves. However, almost all common existing routing protocols basically focus on performance measures regardless of security issues. Since these protocols consider all nodes to be trustworthy, they are prone to serious security threats. Wormhole...

Manet is one of the most popular and frequently emerging type of wireless network. Because of its increasing usability different types of routing protocols have been designed. These routing protocols are designed basically to meet the need of manets such as flexibility, mobility, security etc. Among all the different type of routing protocol DYMO routing protocol is new which is developed by IE...

FANET is a popular technology in networking and communication. It works in those areas where MANET cannot do. It is difficult to implement routing in FANETs because of the fast change in topology and high mobility.For an effective communication, routing protocols plays a great role.The nodes transfer data on the basis of a particular routing protocol. As the location of the nodes changes freque...

The existing wireless routing protocols do not accommodate any security and are highly vulnerable to attacks. This paper discusses the weakness of those protocols, and threats and attacks against wireless routing. I also look at some suggested solutions that could be used when secure protocols are designed. The current protocols should not be used in hostile environments unless the applications...

Delay-tolerant Networking (DTN) enables communication in sparse mobile ad-hoc networks and other challenged environments where traditional networking fails and new routing and application protocols are required. Past experience with DTN routing and application protocols has shown that their performance is highly dependent on the underlying mobility and node characteristics. Evaluating DTN proto...

Recent advances in WSN (Wireless Sensor Networks) have led to many routing protocols designed for more efficiency of energy utilization in the WSN field. While many routing protocols have been proposed in this field, a single routing protocol cannot be energy-efficient if the environment of the sensor network varies. This paper presents a FAR (Fuzzy logic based Adaptive Routing) algorithm that ...