An efficient integrated routing protocol for interconnecting mobile ad hoc networks and the internet

  • Authors:
  • Khaleel Ur Rahman Khan;A. Venugopal Reddy;Rafi U Zaman

  • Affiliations:
  • M J College of Engg & Tech, Hyderabad, India;University College of Engg, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India;M J College of Engg & Tech, Hyderabad, India

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communication and Control
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

There has been a massive growth in wireless communications in recent years. Access to the Internet via wireless communication devices has become an important issue due to the trend of an all-IP network in the 4G wireless networks. One such wireless technology gaining popularity is Wireless Mobile ad hoc Network, which is an infrastructure-less, autonomous, stand alone and self organizing network. It can be simply and flexibly deployed in almost any environment. However it has limited wireless coverage and limited connectivity. With the integration of MANET routing protocol and IP protocol, Internet connectivity to the MANET nodes can be achieved. Solutions to the integration problem, introduce an intermediate entity with hybrid mechanisms enabling it to connect to two different networks. In this paper, an extended DSDV protocol, named as Efficient DSDV (Eff-DSDV) protocol is used to provide bidirectional connectivity between ad hoc nodes and the hosts in the Infrastructure-based networks like Internet. The proposed framework uses one of the ad hoc hosts known as Mobile Internet Gateway (MIG) to act as a bridge between the two networks. The detailed performance comparison has been made between the proposed approach using Eff-DSDV routing protocol and the existing integration strategies. The simulation results shows that the performance of the proposed strategy using Eff-DSDV is superior to the existing integration strategies.