This document provides an overview of mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). It defines MANETs as infrastructureless, self-configuring networks of mobile devices connected via wireless links. The document outlines the history and working of MANETs, describes types like VANETs, and discusses challenges, applications, advantages, and disadvantages of MANETs. It concludes that MANETs allow flexible communication between mobile nodes in a dynamically changing network topology.