Abstract: “MANET has emerged as one of the most focused and trust research area in the field of wireless networks and wireless mesh networks. A major thrust of the protocol designers towards the development and deployment of distance vector routing based protocols, irrespectively in wired, wireless or even in ad hoc and sensor networks is primarily because of the conceptual and implementation simplicity and elegance coupled with the minimum information requirement by each node. A good amount of research has been done in the past towards the improvement of routing algorithms in MANET, but the area has not become stable till date. This paper proposes a neighbour based routing protocol that supports a mobile node as special neighbours in the network for making packet forwarding decisions and creates route only when desired by the source node as in case of reactive routing protocol.”

Keywords: MANET, Distance Vector Routing, DVRA-SN, Special Neighbours, Neighbouring Table Algorithm.component