Mobility Aware MANET Routing Protocol Using Cross Layer Design Approach

Abstract

Mobile Adhoc Network (MANET) is a dynamic network with time varying topology and time varying network resources. Due to the error-prone wireless channel and high mobility, traditional protocols of wired networks cannot be successfully applied to MANETs. The popularity of mobile and hand held devices equipped with wireless interface is creating a new challenge for Quality of Service. The wired network has also not been able to ful ll end-to-end guarantees. Due to the nature of MANETs, achieving the same end-to-end guarantees is very difficult. The mobility rate makes the task difficult. The aim is to ght against the losses caused due to mobility. This work attempts to build stable paths so as to counter the e ects of mobility induced route failures.It attempts to implement a proactive protocol which uses Cross Layer Approach by using communication between Physical layer and Network layer. And the results will be compared with other protocols like AODV, DSDV in terms of throughput and packet delivery ratio.