QoS parameters improvement for the hybrid Zone-based Routing Protocol in MANET

Author

Fahmy, Imane M A ; Nassef, Laila ; Saroit, Imane A. ; Ahmed, S.H.

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci. & Inf. Dept., Cairo Univ., Cairo, Egypt

fYear

2010

fDate

28-30 March 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

9

Abstract

A new Virtual Base Station (VBS) election technique is proposed by this paper to help in QoS provisioning in the infrastructure-less Mobile Ad-hoc Networks referred to as MANET. This VBS election technique is based on the mobile node´s Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) and has been applied on the MANET´s hybrid routing protocol: The Zone-based Routing Protocol. The developed routing protocol will be referred to as SNR-VBS ZRP. Based on the QoS adopted definition special to the MANETs, the performance evaluation metrics will be redefined by the paper. In order to study the impact of the SNR-VBS ZRP on the main QoS metrics, simulation results were derived from the QualNet simulator. Therefore, the SNR-VBS ZRP performance will be compared to the standard ZRP to highlight its effect on QoS provisioning in MANET.

Keywords

ad hoc networks; mobile radio; quality of service; routing protocols; MANET; QoS parameters improvement; QualNet simulator; SNR-VBS ZRP; hybrid routing protocol; hybrid zone-based routing protocol; mobile ad-hoc networks; mobile node; signal-to-noise ratio; virtual base station election technique; Base stations; Cellular networks; Clustering algorithms; Mobile ad hoc networks; Nominations and elections; Routing protocols; Size control; Spread spectrum communication; Wireless mesh networks; Wireless sensor networks; Includes MANET; QoS; SNR and QualNet; VBS; ZRP;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Informatics and Systems (INFOS), 2010 The 7th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cairo

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5828-8

Type

conf

Filename

5461779