1 This work is supported by ONR “MINUTEMAN” project under contract N000014-01-C-0016 Abstract –The on-demand routing schemes in mobile ad hoc networks are appealing because of the lower routing overhead, compared with traditional proactive schemes. The on-demand routing protocols introduce routing overhead only in the presence of data packets that need routes. However, the control overhead of o...

Node clustering is a potential solution to minimize the control signaling overhead of routing protocols in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs). High relative vehicle mobility and frequent network topology changes induce instability to node clusters. Node cluster instability inflicts new challenges on maintaining a long route between network nodes, thus increasing the routing overhead. As a resul...

-Numerous clustering algorithms have been proposed that can support routing in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). However, there is very little formal analysis that considers the communication overhead incurred by these procedures. Further, there is no published investigation of the overhead associated with the recursive application of clustering algorithms to support hierarchical routing. This p...

We study routing overhead in mobile ad-hoc networks employing geographic routing with no hierarchy. We first provide a new framework for quantifying routing overhead due to control messages generated to exchange location information. Second, we compute the minimum number of bits required on average to describe the locations of a node, borrowing tools from information theory. This result is then...

Mobile ad hoc network is a collection of wireless movable node. Movement of nodes results in a change in routes, requiringsome mechanism for determining new routes, Verity of routing protocol exist under MANETs for managing network but all existing routing technique spread maximal overhead so location aware base routing technique is applied that provide minimal overhead as compare to existing r...

In multi hop wireless networking, Opportunistic data forwarding has drawn much attention, with most research conducted for stationary wireless networks. Opportunistic data forwarding has not been widely utilized in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs),the reason behind this is the lack of an efficient lightweight proactive routing scheme with strong source routing capability. In this paper, proposed...

Routing is one of the challenging issues in Mobile Ad hoc NETw orks (MANETs). Broadcasting is the fundamental and eff icient data dissemination mechanism for route discovery in reactive routing protocols of Mobile Ad hoc NETw ork (MANET). This causes the problem called the broadcast storm problem w hich results in redundant retransmission and adds to routing overhead. There are many approaches ...

In our current work with the Chord protocol [SMK01] we had to decide whether to use iterative or recursive routing. Iterative routing provides the initiating node with a lot of information and influence on the routing path. Recursive routing on the other hand is faster and results in less overhead, most notably in stable networks. We present a hybrid routing solution that inherits the advantage...

Load balancing is a crucial part of MANET routing protocols. Most of the currently implemented routing protocols do not account for load balancing. A number of new mechanisms and routing protocols have been proposed recently to deal with load balancing in MANET routing. A majority of the schemes proposed already add to the routing overhead which is an area of great concern since MANETS are reso...