Performance Analysis of Mesh and Position Based Hybrid Routing In MANETS: A Comprehensive Study

Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs) are autonomously self-organized networks without infrastructure support. In a mobile ad hoc network, nodes move arbitrarily; therefore, the network may experience rapid and unpredictable topology changes. Because nodes in a MANET normally have limited transmission ranges, some nodes cannot communicate directly with each other. Hence, routing paths in mobile ad hoc networks potentially contain multiple hops, and every node in mobile ad hoc networks has the responsibility to act as a router. A new routing algorithm called Position Based Hybrid Routing Algorithm (PBHRA) was developed to optimize bandwidth usage of ad hoc networks.