Bandwidth Management Framework for IP based Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

In mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) the wireless links are error prone in nature and the mobile devices are highly mobile, therefore traditional Internet QoS protocols like RSVP cannot be easily migrated to the wireless environment. The management of bandwidth is critical to establish session guarantees for traffic flows. This paper examines the challenges of incorporating scalable bandwidth management scheme in a mobile ad hoc network environment with brief description of some proposals that specifically address this problem. It also analyzes a framework coping with the specific issues of MANETs and further proposes an extension to this existing framework for flexible resource allocation and better scalability.