A Review on Routing Protocols and Attacks in Mobile Ad-Hoc Network

A Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANETs) is an autonomous system that enables wireless communication through mobile devices without any centralized control. Compared to wired networks wireless ad-hoc networks are more vulnerable to various attacks due to their infrastructure less access of mobile devices. MANET possess some specific characteristics such as dynamic topology, limited power, limited bandwidth. Many researches have been done for securing MANET by detecting and preventing it from various attacks. Routing protocols are subjected to several kinds to attacks which affects the single user or the whole networks operations. This paper aims to discuss about different kinds of attacks and routing protocols in MANET.