ABSTRACT
A Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) is an autonomous system of functionally equivalent mobile nodes, which must be able to communicate while moving, without any kind of wired infrastructure. To this end, mobile nodes must cooperate to provide the routing service. Routing in mobile environments is challenging due to the constraints existing on the resources (transmission bandwidth, CPU time, and battery power) and the required ability of the protocol to effectively track topological changes.
