ADAPTIVE ROUTING PROTOCOL IN MANET

Abstract

Wireless networks have become very popular along with the increasing demand of mobile devices, which has given birth to the need of Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET). MANET is a collection of wireless mobile nodes which communicate and exchange data with each other without any central administration or wired infrastructure. Due to mobile nodes and the frequently changing network topology the overhead in the network increases, also the use of broadcasting technique affects the network overhead. Thus in the proposed protocol we use the uncovered neighbor set generation mechanism to restrict the broadcasting limit, which helps in reducing the network overhead. Due to limited processing power, energy, routing table size and different mobility of the nodes, it is hard to maintain a stable path between the communicating nodes. Thus the proposed protocol makes use of average state calculation technique to increase the route stability and efficiency. In this way we can achieve improved performance of the routing protocol in MANET.