Routing with adaptive path and limited flooding for mobile ad hoc networks

  • Authors:
  • Yun-Sheng Yen;Hung-Chieh Chang;Ruay-Shiung Chang;Han-Chieh Chao

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Informatics, Fo Guang University, I-Lan, Taiwan, ROC;Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan, ROC;Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan, ROC;Institute of Computer Science and Information Engineering and Department of Electronic Engineering, National Ilan University, I-Lan, Taiwan, ROC and Department of Electrical Engineering, National ...

  • Venue:
  • Computers and Electrical Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In MANET, each mobile host can freely move around and the network topology is dynamically changing. To send a datagram, a source host broadcasts a route discovery packet to the network. All neighboring nodes receiving this packet will rebroadcast this packet until it reaches the destination. It will have large flooding overhead, poor network performance and undesirable battery power consumption. To improve network performance, we design a novel routing protocol called RAPLF (Routing with Adaptive Path and Limited Flooding) for mobile ad hoc networks. Simulation results show that our protocol has better performance especially in packet delivery rate and flooding overhead when compared to similar protocols.