ABSTRACT

In Wireless Configuration, multiple nodes are distributed through out the Network and the nodes have mobile characteristics. The network topology changes time to time because the nodes do not have any static set up. That is wireless mobile networks are infrastructure less distributed system. Depending upon the requirement, the mobile nodes are dynamically organized itself to make a temporary routing between a sender and receiver for an effective communication. An important task of the wireless routing protocol is to face the dynamically changing topology in an ad hoc mobile network environment with minimum routing overhead in order to establish a path between two nodes. There are many protocols to meet the above goals, to provide an effective communication between the source and the destination. But in between the source and destination nodes there may be many mobile nodes exist. There are various categories of routing protocols are in use. In this paper, the various routing protocols in Proactive, Reactive and Hybrid categories are surveyed and analyzed. The analysis is done in contrast to parameters such as packet delivery fraction, average end to end delay and number of packets dropped.