Quality- Of- Survey Routing Solutions forMobile Ad HocNetworks: A Review
Dept. Of ETC ,OEC, India, Dr Madhumita Dash · IOSR Journal of Electronics and Communication Engineering · 2014
The field of mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), is still in its infancy and particularly the provision of quality of service (QoS) is much more challenging comparing to the wired line networks, mainly due to node mobility, multihop communications, contention for channel access, and a lack of central coordination.Now a days much research attention has focused on providing QoS assurances in MANET protocols.QoS routing protocols provide a mechanism to establish a multicast session.The QoS routing protocol is an integral part of any QoS solution since its function is to ascertain which nodes, if any, are able to serve applications requirements and also is an open problem and remains relatively uncharted territory.This paper offers a survey of QoS routing solutions for MANETs which requires the interaction and cooperation of several components like QoS routing protocol, resource reservation scheme and QoS capable medium access control (MAC) layer.This paper provides a broad and comprehensive view of the various components and protocols required to provide QoS support in computer networks, focusing primarily on ad hoc networks which shows the picture of transform of traditional infrastructure wired to wireless networks (i.e.cellular-based networks).In this paper, an overview of QoS multicast protocolswhich have been proposed in the past literatures are presented.In addition, the performancesof these protocols are compared with respect to performance metrics.