A literature survey of secure routing protocols for Manets

Ad hoc Networks is a temporary collection of moving nodes such as mobiles, laptops, computers with a assumption of no already available setup for networking functions such as routing. All the nodes depend on one another to move the packet from source to the destination if source and destination node are not within the range of one another. Due to air as a medium for transmission, Ad hoc networks are suspected to various types of security attacks like battery consumption attack, blackhole attack, grey hole attack etc. The common aim of all these attacks is to attack on the routing protocols such as DSR, AODV, battery of nodes, bandwidth used for moving data. This paper gives us overview of some of routing protocols providing security by giving their important functions security against various attacks, merits and demerits.