Pro-Active Routing Protocols in MANETs: A Comparative Study with Hybrid Routing Protocols

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are one of the popular wireless networks for communication between various devices. From last few years, MANETs have gained huge popularity in wireless communication and researchers from all over the world used to work on different aspects of MANETs. MANET are infrastructure less networks system containing nodes having higher mobility like laptops and these interface without the need of infrastructure like routers and bridges. The various aspects like routing, synchronization, consumption of power, bandwidth consumption will be considered by the researchers. This paper deals with various pro-active routing protocols in MANETs and how each of these routing protocols are different from one another with in terms of applications and how they contribute to the topology of dynamic nature in ad hoc networks. The various protocols used for routing made it hard to find the protocol is best fit pertaining to various network conditions. The simulation analysis for routing protocols was done in NS2. This paper gives overview of various pro-active protocols for routing and it's comparison with hybrid routing protocols on the basis of various routing parameters.