Multipath Routing with Self-Healing Technique for Quality of Service (QoS) Support in Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANET)

Abstract

Mobile ad hoc network is an autonomous system of mobile hosts/routers connected by wireless links. The routers / hosts are free to move randomly and organize themselves arbitrarily, resulting in rapid and unpredictable topology changes. The QoS routing for mobile ad hoc networks has challenging problems due to dynamic topology and limited bandwidth. To combat these inherent unreliabilities, we propose a multipath routing algorithm with self healing property. The performance of the algorithm was studied using the public domain simulator GloMoSim and it was found that the algorithm gives good throughput, and less routing overhead ratio. It also supports load balancing and possesses good resilience property.

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M A Bhagyaveni

MA Bhagyaverni graduated form Bharathiyar University in Electronics and communication Engineering in 1997. She has obtained her Master degree in the field of Optical Communication from Anna University in 1999. She is presently working with Anna University as Lecturer in Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering. She is currently pursuing towards PhD in Anna University in the area of Mobile Ad hoc Network. Her area of interest includes Ad hoc Networking, Wireless Communications and Optical Communication. She has more than 7 papers in National and International conferences.

S Shanmugavel

S Shanmugavel graduated from Madras Institute of Technology in Electronics and Communication Engineering in 1978, He obtained his PhD degree in the area of Coded Communication and Spread Spectrum Techniques from Indian Institute of Technology.

During the period November 1978 to March 1989 he was working as Senior Research Assistant at Radar and Communication center, NT, Kharagpur, where he worked in various sponsored research projects on Digital Communication and Spread Spectrum Techniques. He joined the faculty of the Dept of E & ECE at IIT Kharagpur as Lecturer in 1987 and became Assistant Professor in 1991. Presently he is a Professor at Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at Anna University, Chennai. He has published more than 60 research papers in the National and International Conferences and Journals in the area of Mobile Ad hoc Networks, ATM Networks, Spread Spectrum Communication and Error Control Coding. His Current areas of interest are Mobile Ad hoc Networks, Cellular IP Networks, Broadband ATM networks and CDMA Engineering.

He received IETE—CDIL Award in September 2000 for the Best Paper Published in the IETE Journal of Research.