A cross layered routing protocol for ad hoc networks

Author

El-Bazzal, Zouhair ; El-Ahmadieh, Khaldoun ; Merhi, Zaher ; Nahas, Michel ; Haj-Ali, Amin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Commun. Eng., Lebanese Int. Univ. (LIU), Beirut, Lebanon

fYear

2012

fDate

24-26 March 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate a cross layer design for routing in mobile ad hoc networks. The goal is to improve the performance of the existing Ad-hoc On Demand Distance Vector (AODV) routing protocol. The design allows the physical layer sharing the received signal strength (RSS), and the medium access control (MAC) layer sharing the remaining energy, as well as the remaining queue length information with the network layer. Based on this information, the network layer computes a weight value that forms the routing metric used for route selection in the enhanced protocol. Finally, we implemented Turbo-AODV (TAODV) which is a modified version of the well-known AODV. Simulation results demonstrated superior Quality of Service (QoS) and better performance comparing to AODV in terms of packet delivery, normalized routing load, discarded packets on queues, and routing overhead.

Keywords

access protocols; mobile ad hoc networks; quality of service; queueing theory; routing protocols; AODV routing protocol; MAC layer; QoS; RSS; TAODV; Turbo-AODV; ad-hoc on demand distance vector routing protocol; cross layered routing protocol; discarded packets; medium access control layer; mobile ad hoc networks; network layer; normalized routing load; packet delivery; physical layer sharing; quality of service; queue length information; received signal strength; route selection; routing metric; routing overhead; Cross layer design; Delay; Peer to peer computing; Routing; Routing protocols; AODV; Cross Layer; MANET; QoS;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology and e-Services (ICITeS), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sousse

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1167-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICITeS.2012.6216684

Filename

6216684