A Study on Advancements on the Zone Routing Protocol of Hybrid Ad Hoc Networks

Abstract

The Ad hoc networks are decentralized type of wireless network. The ad hoc networks incorporate several protocols that are used to mainly serve the process of communication from one node to another. The routing protocols are categorized as Reactive and Proactive Routing Protocols. To overcome the disadvantages of these both, the Hybrid Routing Protocol has been proposed. Zone Routing Protocol is one such Hybrid Ad Hoc Network. This paper mainly focuses on the enhancements made on the Zone Routing Protocol and evaluated against few parameters. Each enhancement is carefully studied and analyzed for their characteristics and compared to the Zone Routing Protocol.