A Multi-Path QoS Routing Protocol in a Wireless Mobile Ad Hoc Network |
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Authors: | Liao Wen-Hwa Wang Shu-Ling Sheu Jang-Ping Tseng Yu-Chee |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Central University, Chung-Li, 320, Taiwan;(2) Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chiao-Tung University, Hsin-Chu, 300, Taiwan |
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Abstract: | A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is one composed of a set of mobile hosts capable of communicating with each other without the assistance of base stations. This paper considers the QoS (quality-of-service) routing problem in a MANET, which is important for many real-time multimedia applications. We propose an on-demand protocol for searching for a multi-path QoS route from a source host to a destination host in a MANET, where a multi-path is a network with a source and a sink satisfying certain bandwidth requirement. Existing works all try to find a uni-path to the destination. The basic idea is to distribute a number of tickets from the source, which can be further partitioned into subtickets to search for a satisfactory multi-path. Through simulations, we justify that the value of our multi-path protocol is in its flexibility: (i) when the network bandwidth is very limited, it can offer a higher success rate to find a satisfactory QoS route than those protocols which try to find a uni-path, and (ii) when the network bandwidth is sufficient, it can perform almost the same as those protocols which try to find a uni-path (in both routing overhead and success rate). |
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Keywords: | mobile ad hoc network (MANET) multi-path quality-of-service (QoS) routing wireless communication |
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