MANET Internet Access using Reactive Mobile Agent Protocol

Abstract

Internet-based mobile ad hoc networking (MANET) is an emerging technology that supports self-organizing mobile networking infrastructures, and is one which is expected to be of great use in commercial and military applications. A new routing scheme for mobile ad hoc network is proposed in this paper. In the proposed mechanism, ad hoc on-demand distance vector (AODV) is modified to achieve a link between a MANET and the Internet with the aid of ant-like mobile agents (ALMA). Through extensive simulations it is proven in this paper the proposed AODV-ALMA hybrid routing technique reduces end-to-end delay to make a quicker route discovery and provides high connectivity as compared to AODV