Abstract-MANET is a self organized and self configurable network without existing infrastructure. It consists of several mobile wireless nodes. A routing protocol provides an efficient route between mobile nodes within the network. The discovery and maintenance of route should consume minimum overhead and bandwidth. In this paper, we introduce a novel Proactive Source Routing protocol that has a very small communication overhead. The proposed work is an efficient and improved light-weight proactive source routing protocol for MANETs that utilizes two common searching algorithms, called breadth first search (BFS) and depth first search (DFS) to discover the route. In such method, every node of the wireless network contains a neighbour table. Such table contains each node and its neighbours with distance between them. Therefore, each node has a full topology of the wireless network which is useful to discover the route. Periodic information exchange is used to update such table. We analyze the solution of routing in MANET and evaluate its performance using Network Simulator-2 (NS-2) under different network parameters.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.