A Survey: Distributed Three-Hop Routing Protocol
Keywords:
MANET, Three-hop routing, Peer-To-PeerAbstract
Hybrid Wireless Networks have gained a lot of importance because of its ultra-high performance in
today’s networking world. Hybrid Wireless Networks consists of both Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET) and
Infrastructure Wireless Networks. MANETs are infrastructreless and most probably short lived networks where
mobile nodes communicate directly through peer-to-peer. Infrastructure Wireless Network requires a central point of
access. As there are advantages of using these two together there are also disadvantages that leads to high overload,
increase in number of hotspots, low reliability. Thus, we need routing protocols to increase the network scalability and
capacity. However, these flaws will be overcome using Distributed Three-Hop Routing Protocol leading to low
overhead, reduced number of hotspots and increase in reliability.