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Chapter 2
Mobile Ad Hoc
Routing Protocols
Jonathan Loo, Shafiullah Khan, and Ali Naser Al-Khwildi
e development of omnipresent mobile computing devices has fueled the need for dynamic
reconfigurable networks. Mobile ad hoc network (MANET) routing protocols facilitate the cre-
ation of such networks, without a centralized infrastructure. One of the challenges in the study
of MANET routing protocols is the evaluation and design of an effective routing protocol that
works at low data rates and responds to dynamic changes in network topology due to node mobil-
ity. Several routing protocols have been standardized by the Internet Engineering Task