A Meta- Analysis on Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (MANET) Performance Issues

With the advancement of technology and wireless communications, Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) have increasingly been the subject of investigation for researches. Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) has become one of the most prevalent areas of research in the recent years because of the challenges it pose to the related protocols. “MANET is the new emerging technology which enables users to communicate without any physical infrastructure regardless of their geographical location, that’s why it is sometimes referred to as an ―infrastructure less network” [1]. “A mobile ad hoc network is an autonomous collection of mobile devices (laptops, smart phones, sensors, etc.) that communicate with each other over wireless links and cooperate in a distributed manner in order to provide the necessary network functionality in the absence of a fixed infrastructure” [2]. The purpose of this study is to assess some performance issues and challenges of mobile ad-hoc networks on a given set of metrics and protocols. The output of which is a MANET paradigm as a result of the performance evaluation under given circumstances. A paradigm was developed based on previous studies under similar subject matter. Keywords: Mobile Ad-hoc Network, metric, protocols, paradig