Performance Optimization in Ad-hoc Networks

A mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) is a collection of mobile nodes which communicate over radio. Mobile ad hoc networks are infrastructure-free, pervasive, ubiquitous and without any centralized authority. These kind of networks are very flexible, thus they do not require any existing infrastructure or central administration. Therefore, mobile ad-hoc networks are suitable for temporary communication links. The biggest challenge in this kind of networks is to fulfil Quality of service parameters. Quality of services for a network is measured in terms of guaranteed amount of data which a network transfers from one place to another in a given time slot. In this paper, I will focus on quality of service issues in mobile ad-hoc networks, for this we use Qos routing protocol to sort out the problem of dynamically varying network topology. This paper also provides you the information about the real time traffic support in ad-hoc networks. Quality of Service support for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks is a challenging task due to dynamic topology &limited resource. The main purpose of QoS routing is to find a feasible path that has sufficient resources to satisfy the constraints. This paper surveys the prevailing mobile ad hoc network QoS parameters with its recent solutions.