Volume : VII, Issue : III, March - 2017

Improving Routing Performance in MANETS using Proactive Route Maintenance

D. Likhith Reddy, V. V. Sunil Kumar

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 Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) algorithm is simple and best suited for high mobility nodes in wireless ad  hoc networks. Due to high mobility in ad–hoc network, route may not exit for long time. Hence DSR algorithm finds an alternative route when the existing communicating route goes down. It becomes a time consuming process if the communicating route fails frequently. In order to avoid this, we propose a modification to the existing DSR protocol. In this paper, we add a link eakage prediction algorithm to the Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) protocol. The mobile node uses signal power strength from the received packets to predict the link eakage time, and sends a warning to the source node of the packet if the link is soon–to–be–oken. The source node can perform a pro–active route rebuild to avoid disconnection. Intermediate nodes in the route continuously monitor the signal strength at the time of communication, based on a predefined threshold signal value. Intermediate node sends a message to the source node that the route is likely to be disconnected, if signal strength falls below the threshold value. If source receive this message it starts using backup route and if back route also fails then it finds alternative route. The backup route will minimize the time consuming process of finding an alternative route to some extent. Experiments demonstrate that adding link eakage prediction to DSR can significantly reduce the total number of dropped data packets (by at least 25%). Simulation results show that the probability of the communication eakage decreases when parallel routes are used. 

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D.Likhith Reddy, V.V.Sunil kumar, Improving Routing Performance in MANETS using Proactive Route Maintenance , INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume‾7 | Issue‾3 | March‾2017

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