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Decentralized wireless networks come in the form of mobile ad hoc networks (MANET). Because it does not rely on pre-existing infrastructure like routers in wired networks or access points in managed (infrastructure) wireless networks, the network is referred to as ad hoc. Instead, each node takes part in routing by sending information to other nodes, therefore the choice of which nodes provide information is decided dynamically based on the connectedness of the network and the routing algorithm being used. Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANET) are made up of a number of wireless nodes and function as a dynamic data exchange. Because of node failures, network segmentation, disconnections, and movement, the network topology changes often. Moreover the mobile nodes which are basically resource constrained, exhibit various kinds of faulty behaviors that may be transient or permanent due to the hardware or software problems. In such a situation, the faulty node may not forward packets and the situation becomes worse. Hence fault tolerance is an important design issue to construct a reliable mobile ad hoc network. Due to the presence of faulty nodes, the performance of routing degrades and the reason for the faulty nodes has to be identified to address routing by exploring network redundancies.