ABSTRACT

Zone Routing Protocol (ZRP) is a hybrid protocol that combines the advantages of both the proactive and reactive protocols. It is classified as: Intra Zone Routing, which uses hop count of the Nneighbors using proactive techniques and Inter Zone Routing, which includes the rest of the network excluding the N-neighbors using reactive techniques. In anycast routing, the packets are routed to the most nearest anycast group member. In this paper, the concept of anycast is used in Zone Routing Protocol assuming the destination as a member of anycast address, hence the packet can be sent to any of the other member of the anycast group which is located nearer to the the source node. In this paper a comparative study is also done among hybrid protocol (Zone Routing Protocol), and the proposed idea of using anycast addressing with Zone Routing Protocol where the proposed idea performs more efficiently.