A Comparative Study for Block Chain Applications in the MANET

Abstract

MANET- Mobile Ad-hoc Networks are famous for their infrastructure-less arrangement for communication. In this network, nodes are self-organized and can act as router. They are battery operated and self-organizing. Block chain is a new concept from 2008 and researchers are trying the possible application of Block chain in many sectors including MANETs. This paper surveys the existing researches done in applying block chain in a MANET environment. Block chain is mainly used in MANETs for improving security while routing packets from one node to another. Some researchers have proposed trust models using block chain. This paper reviews some of the existing approaches where block chain is used in MANETs for routing the packets, creating trust models, and dealing with network partitioning problem and scalability problem. This paper acts as a review paper to study on block chain applications in MANET.