On quality of service routing in ad-hoc networks

Ad-hoc networks can be formally defined as a collection of wireless mobile hosts dynamically farming a temporary network without the aid of any existing established infrastructure or centralized admission [C.K. Toh, 1997]. The main focus of the paper is the extension to the QoS routing procedure, which can inform the source quality of service available to any destination in the wireless network. The ad-hoc on demand distance vector routing protocol (AODV) is taken into consideration and an extension to the protocol has been suggested to support quality of service.