Routing in Wireless Adhoc Networks: A New Horizon

TL;DR

This paper proposes a new routing paradigm for mobile ad hoc networks that maintains multiple connections to improve bandwidth distribution and routing efficiency, validated through simulation results.

Contribution

Introduces a novel approach for route maintenance with multiple connections in ad hoc networks, enhancing bandwidth management and routing performance.

Findings

Improved packet delivery ratio

Higher throughput in simulations

Reduced message overhead

Abstract

A lot of work has been done on routing protocols for mobile ad hoc networks, but still standardization of them requires some more issues less addressed by the existing routing protocols. In this paper a new paradigm of maintaining multiple connections in adhoc routing protocols has been highlighted which may be crucial for efficient routing in mobile ad hoc networks. The problem of multiple connections has been hardly worked on in adhoc networks. In this paper the solution of route maintenance if nodes are maintaining multiple connections has been proposed. This idea not only helps to solve the multiple connections problem, but also take care of proper bandwidth distribution to different connections as per different traffic types. Study has been incorporated on existing AODV with changes. Simulation studies have been performed over packet delivery ratio, throughput and message overheads. Results show that the proposed solution for multiple connections is efficient and worth implementing in existing as well as new protocols.