Qos Based Routing in Manet

Increase in popularity of wireless technology and continuous technological advancement has made ad-hoc network as an area of interest. An ad-hoc network is an infrastructure-less, dynamic wireless network consisted of nodes that can communicate directly with each other if lying in each other vicinity . Because of the dynamic nature, nodes are free to move and arrange themselves arbitrarily. Thus, the network's topology may change rapidly and unpredictably. Existing work in ad-hoc routing is generally related to the better utilization of bandwidth only. But in order to cater all type of real time applications, efficient routing is not a solution. Because of the dynamic nature, routing in ad-hoc networks experiences link failure. Hence, a routing protocol that supports efficient routing along with guaranteed services like guaranteed bandwidth, less delay, reduction in resource consumption, increased throughput etc. (collectively known as Quality of Service or QoS ) is required. This Book provides a new solution for the provision of QoS in terms of Bandwidth and Delay in ad-hoc environment.