30-09-2010, 05:40 PM
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A SURVEY OF QoS ROUTING PROTOCOLS FOR MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKS
Mrs. Santhi.G
Senior Lecturer
Department of Information
Technology
Pondicherry Engineering College
Puducherry - 605014.
Dhanalakshmi.A
Department of Information
Technology
Pondicherry Engineering
College,
Puducherry- 605014
Gayathri.J
Department of Information
Technology
Pondicherry Engineering
College,
Puducherry- 605014
Abstract
Real time services like audio/ videoconferencing, webcasting requires the network to provide the guarantee of the service being provided to the receiver. The provision of QoS guarantees is much more challenging in Mobile Ad hoc Networks. Many researches have been done so as to provide QoS assurances by designing various MANET protocols. A number of new QoS routing protocols of different styles have been proposed for ad hoc networks. However, systematic performance evaluations and comparative analysis of these protocols in a common realistic environment have been performed only in a limited manner. The relative strengths, weaknesses, and applicability of each multicast protocol are studied and discussed. Keywords: QoS, Adhoc, Protocol, Routing