Multi-rate QoS Enabled NDMR for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Luo Liu, LAURIE G. CUTHBERT · 2008
Mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a collection of mobile nodes that can communicate with each other without using any fixed infrastructure. To support multimedia applications MANETs require an efficient routing protocol and quality of service (QoS) mechanism. Node-Disjoint Multipath Routing Protocol (NDMR) is a practical protocol in MANETs: it reduces routing overhead dramatically and achieves multiple node-disjoint routing paths. QoS support in MANETs is an important issue as best-effort routing is not efficient for supporting multimedia applications. This paper presents a novel adaptation of NDMR: Multi-rate QoS enabled NDMR, which provides QoS support for MANETS and also allowing multi-rate so that the NDMR QoS can minimise the overall delays.