Performance evaluation of associative based routing in Adhoc networks
Ashwani Kush, Phalguni Gupta, Ram Kumar · Journal of Interdisciplinary Mathematics · 2006
A “Mobile Ad hoc Network” is an autonomous system of mobile hosts which are free to move around randomly and organize themselves arbitrarily. In order to facilitate communication within the network, a routing protocol is used to discover routes between nodes. The primary goal of such an Ad hoc network routing protocol is correct and efficient route establishment between a pair of nodes so that messages may be delivered in a timely manner. In this paper, in addition to defining major areas of research in the area of network support for mobile computing, an attempt has been made to give emphasis on Associative based routing as new paradigm in place of existing shortest path routing algorithms. The shortest Ad hoc route derived at time T may no longer be valid at time T+1, since nodes are moving. ABR (Associative Based Routing) and OABTR (Optimized Associativity-Based Threshold Routing) protocols are compared to give a view of Associative routing with a set of parameters. Mobile Ad hoc Networks community is trying to standardize the protocols and this study will provide a great help to them.