SURVEY ON CONTROL MECHANISM OF FLOODING OPERATION OF ROUTING PROTOCOL IN MANET

Abstract

Routing plays vital role in mobile ad-hoc networks because of frequent changes in topology. Due to this nature, route or path breaks in rapid manner which causes routing overhead and decreases performance. In this environment, effective routing is essential for data transmission in which each participating node behaves as a router. Several schemes have been advised for routing to discover route, one of them is flooding. Flooding scheme offers to discover route through flooding of routing packets in the network. In this scheme routing packets are traversing throughout the network infinitely that consumes resources unnecessarily such as battery power and bandwidth which causes routing overhead and throughput degradation. This paper presents review of best neighbor mechanisms to control flooding of routing packets.