ABSTRACT
A Mobile Ad Network (MANET) is a temporary dynamic network that can be formed wherever two or more nodes using the same preferences to communicate are present, provided that they reside in each other’s transmission range. Such a network needs no centralised management organ and is perfectly suited for improvised applications that take place in hostile environments such as disaster scenarios, search and rescue operations; in the last decade, a MANET has been used as well in the entertainment applications, vehicular services and many other civilian applications. This is currently an interesting research area and it is desirable to increase the network’s throughput while decreasing the end-to-end delay especially when real time applications are considered.
The scope of the thesis is to enhance the packet forwarding functionality that resides in the network layer of a MANET. This is performed through merging the Reliable and Efficient Forwarding (REEF) protocol with the Information Dispersal Algorithm (IDA); the result of that merge is called REEF-IDA protocol. To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed protocol on the performance of the network, a simulation study has been conducted, in which it compared the results of the REEF-IDA protocol against these of its limited version, the REEF protocol.
The simulation study shows that the REEF-IDA offers higher throughput, lower end-to-end delay and lower packet loss ratio when compared to REEF. What is interesting in the results that REEF-IDA is resilient to the increasing mobility and the increasing number of adversaries, while on the other hand, REEF’s performance dramatically falls down when mobility and/or number of adversaries increase. REEF-IDA achieves up to 114.29% more throughput while decreases both the end-to-end delays and the packet loss ratio up to 100% less than those of REEF.
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If can please send your thesis to me, i want to continue to read your thesis!Thank so much!
I like what you did really, but who was your supervisor in your M.Sc thesis?!
A very dear professor and a godfather; the name is Prof. Ahmed Sharaf ElDin.
He is a very supportive and cooperative supervisor and educator; I will be so glad to get you in touch with him 😀
A thank you sealed with a big smile 🙂
I like to interest to work in adhoc networks.Your Thesis was interesting to me.I like to continue to read your thesis.