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Energy Efficient Location Aided Routing Protocol for Wireless MANETs
A Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (MANET) is a collection of wireless mobile nodes
forming a temporary network without using any centralized access point,
infrastructure, or centralized administration. In this paper we introduce an
Energy Efficient Location Aided Routing (EELAR) Protocol for MANETs that is
based on the Location Aided Routing (LAR). EELAR makes significant reduction in
the energy consumption of the mobile nodes batteries by limiting the area of
discovering a new route to a smaller zone. Thus, control packets overhead is
significantly reduced. In EELAR a reference wireless base station is used and
the network's circular area centered at the base station is divided into six
equal sub-areas. At route discovery instead of flooding control packets to the
whole network area, they are flooded to only the sub-area of the destination
mobile node. The base station stores locations of the mobile nodes in a
position table. To show the efficiency of the proposed protocol we present
simulations using NS-2. Simulation results show that EELAR protocol makes an
improvement in control packet overhead and delivery ratio compared to AODV,
LAR, and DSR protocols.Comment: 9 Pages IEEE format, International Journal of Computer Science and
Information Security, IJCSIS 2009, ISSN 1947 5500, Impact factor 0.423,
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Performance Analysis of Traffic and Mobility Models on Mobile and Vehicular Ad Hoc Wireless Networks
Advances in wireless communication technology and the proliferation of mobile devices enable the capa-
bilities of communicating with each other even in areas with no pre-existing communication infrastructure.
Traffic and mobility models play an important role in evaluating the performance of these communication
networks. Despite criticism and assumption from various researches on Transmission Control Protocols
(TCP), weaknesses on Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET), and Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET).
A simulation was carried out to evaluate the performance of Constant Bit Rate, Variable Bit Rate and
Transmission Control Protocol on MANET and VANET using DSR routing protocol. CBR, VBR, and TCP
have different manufacturer operation mechanisms and these differences lead to significant performance
of CBR and VBR over TCP with better throughput and less average maximal end-to-end delay. DSR
was able to respond to link failure at low mobility which led to TCP’s performance in packets delivery
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