International Journal of Research Studies in Computer Science and Engineering (IJRSCSE) Volume 5, Issue 3, 2018, PP 15-22 ISSN 2349-4840 (Print) & ISSN 2349-4859 (Online) DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.20431/2349-4859.0503003 www.arcjournals.org International Journal of Research Studies in Computer Science and Engineering (IJRSCSE) Page 15 Scrutinizing and Execution of AODV and DVR Routing Protocols in Wireless Ad-hoc Networks Dr. Gagandeep Jagdev Dept. of Computer Science, Punjabi University Guru Kashi College, Damdama Sahib (PB). 1. INTRODUCTION WANETs are the distributed, dynamic, self-configuring, and decentralized wireless networks. Communication between nodes in these networks takes place with wireless links and without the help of a centralized trusted authority. This ad-hoc and decentralized working enabled them to be applied in the remote, hostile, and resource-constrained environments to perform mission critical tasks [1, 2]. An ad-hoc network is a local area network (LAN) that is built spontaneously as devices connect. Instead of relying on a base station to coordinate the flow of messages to each node in the network, the individual network nodes forward packets to and from each other as shown in Fig. 1. In the Windows operating system, ad-hoc is a communication mode (setting) that allows computers to directly communicate with each other without a router [3, 4]. Fig1. The figure represents the basic structure of WANETs 1.1. Characteristics of Wanets  Autonomous operations: Nodes communicate among them with inherent trust, cooperation, and without a central authority. Nodes act as the router to identify the path, and as the host to generate the data and control packets.  Dynamically changing topology: Nodes arbitrarily move in the network with varying speed and direction. With this, nodes frequently enter and leave the communication range of other nodes. It causes a dynamic change in topology.  Multi-hop routing: Each node consists of a fixed communication range and hence they tend to follow multi-hop routing to transmit the data between the source and the destinationnodes. Abstract: A wireless network is normally a decentralized network. The network is adhoc because each node is willing to forward data for other nodes and so the determination of which nodes forward data is made dynamically.Sincethead-hocnetworkisadecentralizednetworkitshoulddetectanynewnodes automatically and induct them seamlessly. The research paper primarily focuses on working of WANETs, elaborating its characteristics and its limitations. In addition of this, the two prominent routing protocols, AODV and DVR, has been discussed along with their implementation and working. Keywords: AODV, DVR, WANETs, wireless networks. *Corresponding Author: Dr. Gagandeep Jagdev, Dept. of Computer Science, Punjabi University Guru Kashi College, Damdama Sahib (PB).