Performance Enhancement of Mobile Ad-Hoc Network using Delay Aware Routing Protocol

Abstract

A Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) is a network comprising of a set of mobile hosts proficient of communicating with each other without the help of base stations. In view of the fact that MANET is an independent system of functionality equivalent mobile nodes, which have to be able to communicate while moving without any kind of wired infrastructure to this end, mobile nodes must work together to provide the routing services. A large number of MANET routing protocols have been projected in the last era. These protocols can be categorized according to the routing approach that they follow to determine route to the destination. These protocols execute variously depending on type of traffic, number of nodes, rate of mobility, etc. Routing protocols categorized into 3 categories. These are Proactive protocols, Reactive protocols and Hybrid protocols. There are Metrics which are accountable to the Performance of MANET & to achieve the Quality of Services for a mobile Adhoc network these metrics play a major role. Delay is one of the major metrics of Quality of Services. Which describes the delay of data packets at the destination node. This Paper presents the concept and approach that how we can improve the performance of MANET by decreasing the delay using any particular delay aware routing protocol. This paper also presents the comparison of different routing protocol on the basis of Delay Metrics.