MANET with Opportunistic Auto-Rate Anthocnet Protocol
Reema Mathew, P V Amrutha, Shubhashisa Sahoo, Binsu C. Kovoor, Y.S. Nijagunarya · 2020
Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) is a continuously self-configuring, self-organizing infrastructureless network of mobile nodes connected wirelessly. Therefore the recurring link breakages can occur in MANET, also the network topology is assumed to be highly dynamic leading to changes in the routing table, which is a key factor to the MANET performance. In this paper, a new protocol called as opportunistic auto rate anthocnet protocol is proposed that can be utilized in MANETs for improving the throughput while adapting to the change in the network topology. The original anthocnet and proposed opportunistic auto rate anthocnet protocol are simulated on the Network Simulator 2 (NS2) to compare the performance of these two protocols. The main objective of this research is to compare the throughput performance of existing anthocnet protocol and proposed OAR-Anthocnet protocol under different network conditions. The obtained simulation result shows that the throughput of the proposed OAR-Anthocnet protocol is nearly twice as compared to the anthocnet protocol due to its opportunistic nature.