International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Technology (IJEAT)
In the last couple of years, the use of wireless networks has become more and more popular. There exist three types of mobile wireless networks: infrastructured networks, ad-hoc networks and hybrid networks which combine infrastructured and ad-hoc aspects. Mobile Ad hoc NETwork (MANET) is a collection of mobile nodes that dynamically form a temporary network and are capable of communicating with each other without the use of a network infrastructure or any centralized administration. The authors present in this paper, the history of MANET, characteristics, challenges (issues) involve in MANET and its some applications.