The area of Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET) has already been a topic of attention from past decade among the research community owing to its potential communication advantages as well as issues associated with it. However, the cases of inter-domain routing in the MANET have challenges furthermore compared to conventional MANET system. Border gateway protocol cannot be applied to support inter-dom...

A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a collection of wireless mobile hosts forming a temporary network without the aid of any stand-alone infrastructure or centralized administration. Mobile Ad-hoc networks are self organizing and self-configuring multichip wireless networks where, the structure of the network changes dynamically. A routing protocol in MANET should fairly distribute the routing t...

This paper discusses a routing protocol that uses multi-agents to reduce network congestion for a Mobile Ad hoc NETwork (MANET). MANET is a multihop wireless network in which the network components such as PC, PDA and mobile phones are mobile. The components can communicate with each other without going through a server. Two kinds of agents are engaged in routing. One is a Routing Agent that co...

A mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) is a collection of wireless mobile nodes that dynamically self-organize to form an arbitrary and temporary network. The mobile nodes can communicate with each other without any fixed infrastructure. MANET can be set up quickly to facilitate communication in a hostile environment such as battlefield or emergency situation. The various severe security threats are i...

Mobile Ad-hoc network is a collection of wireless mobile nodes which are connected in dynamic manner and these nodes acts as routers and communicate to each other. Due to this dynamic nature of MANET’s, routing in MANET is extremely challenging, as it has limited bandwidth and power energy. MANET nodes operating on battery try to pursue the energy efficiency heuristically by reducing the energy...

Although an autonomous mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is useful in many scenarios, a MANET connected to the Internet is more desirable. This interconnection is achieved by using gateways, which act as bridges between a MANET and the Internet. Before a mobile node can communicate with an Internet host it needs to find a route to a gateway. Thus, a gateway discovery mechanism is required. In this ...

A mobile ad hoc network (MANET), sometimes called a wireless mesh network, is a self-configuring network of mobile devices connected by wireless links. An Adhoc network is a network in which the locations of switches, routers can be mobile. Unlike traditional mobile wireless networks, ad hoc networks do not rely on any fixed infrastructure. Instead, hosts rely on each other to keep the network ...

Mobile Ad Hoc networks (MANET) comprise mobile hosts in a network bereft of base stations and characterized by a highly dynamic network topology. The MANET environment contains unpredictable obstacles, such as mountains, lakes, buildings, or regions without any hosts, impeding or blocking message relay. This study proposes geocasting protocol for sending short message from a source host to a ge...

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) are pervasive, self-configuring, infrastructure-free, and ubiquitous devoid of any centralized authority. Mobile ad hoc networks have proved their efficiency in the deployment for different fields, but they are highly vulnerable to security attacks which is particularly challenging in wireless networks. The existing research that has been carried out provides auth...

MANET is a self-configuring infrastructure less network. The lacks of an infrastructure in ad hoc networks pose large challenges in the functionality of these networks. Mobile Ad Hoc Network has number of security problems that exists due to the self-configuring nature of nodes. The black hole attack is one of the well known security intimidation in wireless mobile ad hoc networks. The intruder...