DOI: 10.36347/sjet.2019.v07i12.005

Pages: 353-357

MANET is combination of wireless mobile nodes that communicate with each other without any kind of centralized control or any device or established infrastructure. Therefore, MANET routing is a critical task to perform in dynamic network. Without any fixed infrastructure, wireless mobile nodes dynamically establish the network. A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is characterized by multihop wireless connectivity consisting of independent nodes which move dynamically by changing its network connectivity without the uses of any pre-existent infrastructure. MANET offers such flexibility which helps the network to form anywhere, at any time, as long as two or more nodes are connected and communicate with each other either directly when they are in radio range or via intermediate mobile nodes. Routing is a significant issue and challenge in ad hoc networks and many routing protocols have been proposed like OLSR, AODV, DSDV, DSR, ZRP, and TORA, LAR so far to improve the routing performance and reliability [9] This research paper provides the overview of ZRP by presenting its functionality. The performance of ZRP (Zone Routing Protocol) is analyzed on the basis of various parameters using simulator OPNET 14.0.