Load-balancing routing protocol based on network awareness for Ad hoc networks
Hai Wang · Journal of PLA University of Science and Technology · 2010
To solve the problems of network congestion leading to high end-to-end delay and low throughput in MANET(mobile ad hoc network),a new routing protocol with load balance based on channel load—CLB-DSR(channel load based-dynamic source routing)was proposed.In this protocol,the channel state was perceived by monitoring the channel busy proportion.Intermediate nodes decided whether to allow routing according to the channel state perceived.The mapping of CLB-DSR protocol took the overload of neighbor nodes into account,so its description of network state was comprehensive and accurate.CLB-DSR protocol simply monitored the occupancy of the channel,so to some extent it reduced the network load caused by overload formation transmission in the network.Simulation results show that the new protocol improves the network throughput and reduces the end-to-end delay effectively without extra route overhead.