A hybrid algorithm for improving the quality of service in MANET

• Main Authors: Hassan, Mustafa Hamid, Mostafa, Salama A., Budiyono, Avon, Mustapha, Aida, Gunasekaran, Saraswathy Shamini
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Insight - Indonesian Society for Knowledge and Human Development 2018
• Subjects: TA168 Systems engineering; TK5101-6720 Telecommunication. Including telegraphy, telephone, radio, radar, television
• Online Access: http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/4984/1/AJ%202018%20%28804%29%20A%20hybrid%20algorithm%20for%20improving%20the%20quality%20of%20service%20in%20MANET.pdf; http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/4984/

A mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) exhibits a dynamic topology with flexible infrastructure. The MANET nodes may serve as both host and router functionalities. The routing feature of the MANET is a stand-alone multi-hop mobile network that can be utilized in many real-time applications. Therefore, identifying paths that ensure high Quality of Service (QoS), such as their topology and applications is a vital issue in MANET. A QoS-aware protocol in MANETs aims to find more efficient paths between the source and destination nodes of the network and, hence, the requirements of the QoS. This paper proposes a different hybrid algorithm that combines Cellular Automata (CA) with the African Buffalo Optimization (ABO), CAABO, to improve the QoS of MANETs. The CAABO optimizes the path selection in the ad-hoc on-demand distance vector (AODV) routing protocol. The test results show that with the aid of the CAABO, the AODV manifests energy and delay-aware routing protocol.