A Comprehensive Survey of Innovative Methodologies in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANET)

The next generation of hotspot technologies for facilitating communications in dynamic, infrastructure less networks, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), military, and relief, are called mobile ad hoc networks. The comparative review presented in this paper accounts for a deep survey of the different methods used in MANETs (as, for example, routing protocols, security models, energy optimization algorithms, and Quality of Service methods). The discussion is centered around the behavior of these methods in relation to several important metrics, scalability, latency, energy usage, and strength of security. According to the study, thus, advantages or disadvantages of each method will be shown so as to direct the research toward the evolution in time of more sophisticated MANET systems.