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Abstract

Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) are self constructive multihop unguided network in which the configuration of network varies. This is primarily due to movability of nodes. The node behaves like host as well as routers in the network. MANETs do not have a specific framework as the source node is not the extent of the goal node to transfer the packets. Therefore a directing technique is needed to assist the source node to advance the packets across the hops to reach the goal node. There are several routing algorithms like topology-based, Hierarchical, position-based routing algorithms are available in the literature. In this paper, we present a comprehensive and proportional analysis of these algorithms to help the researchers for the development of new routing algorithms.