HOME NETWORKING

Abstract

Mobile ad-hoc networks are the networks that can be formed with the mutual coordination of two or more mobile devices without the intervention of any fixed infrastructure. Our future homes and Industrial environments are likely to be based on the networks which are easy to deploy with minimal installation and maintenance cost. Mobile ad-hoc networks have strong potential to fulfil the requirements of future computing. Where, on one hand mobile ad-hoc networks are able to give us a networking environment where we can form network on our convenience without involving much complexities. The other side shows that there are number of issues in this area which require satisfactorily solutions before we will be able to use mobile ad-hoc networks at a wider scale i.e. home, business, education and other environments. Routing can be seen as one of the important aspect of any networking environment. It is an unresolved issue in mobile ad-hoc networks. Work is going on since over a decade to invent an efficient routing mechanism for mobile ad-hoc networks. Numbers of different techniques and algorithm have been proposed. However, most of these solutions have certain limitation which makes them unable to operate in all environments. Moreover, very less attention has been given to obtain analytical results of these algorithms in a real environment. Our research shows, that most of the existing issues in mobile ad-hoc networks are interrelated with the routing mechanism of mobile ad hoc networks. On the basis of carried out research, we have also concluded that most of the proposed protocols, if good in addressing some issues besides routing, they are not very impressive in handling others. As deployment of mobile ad hoc networks in future home environment depend very much on the invention of a successful routing solution. We have proposed a novel algorithm ‘mobile ad-hoc on demand data delivery protocol (MAODDP)’ as a routing solution for mobile ad hoc networks. One of the important features of MAODDP is the fast communication by establishing route and delivering data simultaneously at the same time. MAODDP follows an intermediate approach in between tables driven and on-demand routing protocols and can be used to save bandwidth and battery life of the participating nodes of mobile ad hoc networks. In this paper, we will discuss in details about various aspects of mobile ad hoc on demand data delivery protocol and its importance in our future computing environment.

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