An Upgraded Load-Aware Routing Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks

Author

Geng, Xu ; Yang, Guangsong ; Chen, Chaoyang

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. Eng., Jimei Univ., Xiamen, China

fYear

2009

fDate

26-28 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

3973

Lastpage

3976

Abstract

Minimum-hop strategy of normal routing protocols for ad hoc wireless networks doesn´t consider the load of the network, which may lead to network congestion and degrade performance of the network thereafter. In order to solve this problem, this paper proposes a simple and effective modified version of AODV-Load-Aware AODV (LA-AODV), in which, each node decides whether or not to accept routing requests from other nodes according to its local link layer load. Simulation results show that the upgraded LA-AODV performs better than AODV, which bring the overall improvement on the network performance.

Keywords

ad hoc networks; routing protocols; telecommunication traffic; ad hoc wireless networks; load-aware AODV; load-aware routing protocol; local link layer load; minimum hop strategy; network congestion; network load; network nodes; network performance degradation; routing requests; Ad hoc networks; Chaos; Degradation; Delay estimation; Information science; Interference; Load management; Routing protocols; Throughput; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Science and Engineering (ICISE), 2009 1st International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nanjing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4909-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICISE.2009.296

Filename

5455427