MANET routing protocols taxonomy

This paper provides researchers many structures for mobile Ad hoc protocol that also could be implemented in VANET protocols. In the literature, there are numerous mobile Ad hoc network (MANET) routing protocols aiming to find the most suitable path from source to destination. Therefore these protocols should be categorized and classified. This classification helps in understanding, analyzing, comparing, and evaluating the routing protocols. Also, the classification can assist researchers and designers to differentiate the characteristics of the routing protocols and to find the relationships between them. The routing protocols cannot be included under one category or one classification, therefore, the known characteristics should be listed and the MANET routing protocols classified according to these attributes. In this paper, varies routing protocol classifications are presented that depend on design philosophy, on network structure, or on the routing protocol characteristic (packet casting and network routing metrics).