The security requirements of distance-vector routing protocols are analyzed, their vulnerabilities identi ed, and countermeasures to these vulnerabilities are proposed. The innovation presented involves the use of mechanisms from the pathnding class of distancevector protocols as a solution to the security problems of distance-vector protocols. The result is the rst proposal to e ectively and e...

As routing takes place in an entirely distributed system where local routers have no direct access to globally consistent network state information, a routing algorithm has to make uncertain forwarding decisions. As the network state may change, due to failures or new adoptions of networks, routing algorithms have to adapt themselves to the new situation. This network convergence phase should b...

In recent years, routing has been the most focused area in ad hoc networks research. On-demand routing in particular, is widely developed in bandwidth constrained mobile wireless ad hoc networks because of its effectiveness and efficiency. Most proposed on-demand routing protocols are built and relied on single route for each data session. Whenever there is a link disconnection on the active ro...

A mobile ad-hoc network is an autonomous collection of mobile nodes that communicate over bandwidth constrained wireless links. Due to nodal mobility, the network topology may change rapidly and unpredictably over time. The routing protocols meant for wired network cannot be used for mobile ad-hoc network because of mobility of network. A number of routing protocols like Destination-Sequenced D...

in recent years, routing has been the most focused area in ad hoc networks research. on-demand routing in particular, is widely developed in bandwidth constrained mobile wireless ad hoc networks because of its effectiveness and efficiency. most proposed on-demand routing protocols are built and relied on single route for each data session. whenever there is a link disconnection on the active ro...