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International Journal of Technological Exploration and Learning (IJTEL) ISSN: 2319-2135 Volume 2 Issue 5 (October 2013)

A Joint Design of Security and QOS Provisioning in MANET’s with Cooperative Communications Nagella Sunil

Dr G prakash Babu

M. Tech Student, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Intell Engineering College, Anantapur, India

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Intell Engineering College, Anantapur,India

Abstract—Cooperative communication has received tremendous interest for wireless networks. Most existing works on cooperative communications are focused on link-level physical layer issues. Consequently, the impacts of cooperative communications on network-level upper layer issues, such as topology control, routing and network capacity, are largely ignored. A multi hop wireless ad hoc network consists of a number of nodes that form a dynamic topology with ad hoc wireless links among neighbouring nodes. These nodes are typically limited in resources such as bandwidth, computation power, memory, and battery. Quality of Service (QoS) is usually defined as a set of service requirements that need to be met by the network while transporting a packet stream from source to destination. With the increasing needs of QoS provisioning for evolving applications such as real time audio/video, it is desirable to support these services in ad hoc networking environments. This thesis investigates QoS provisioning techniques for this type of networks. Keywords: QOS; MANET; Communication; Security; Network.

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INTRODUCTION

Mobile ad-hoc network is an independent system of mobile nodes connected by wireless links forming a short, live, on-thefly network even when access to the Internet is unavailable. Nodes in MANETs generally operate on low power battery devices. These nodes can function both as hosts and as routers. As a host, nodes function as a source and destination in the network and as a router, nodes act as intermediate bridges between the source and the destination giving store-andforward services to all the neighbouring nodes in the network. Easy deployments, speed of development, and decreased dependency on the infrastructure are the main reasons to use ad-hoc network. Multi hop wireless ad hoc networks are useful in many application environments and do not need any infrastructure support. Collaborative computing and communications in smaller areas (building organizations, conferences, etc.) can be set up using multi hop wireless ad hoc networks. Communications in battlefields and disaster recovery areas are other examples of application environments. Similarly communications using a network of sensors or oats over water are other potential applications of multi hop wireless networks. The increasing use of collaborative applications and wireless devices may further add to the need and usage of ad hoc networks. With the increase in quality of service (QoS) needs

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in evolving applications, it is also desirable to support these services in multi hop ad hoc networks (especially MANETs, which will be the focus of our discussion in this chapter). The resource limitations and variability further add to the need for QoS provisioning in such networks. However, the characteristics of these networks make the QoS support a very complex process. QoS support in MANETs encompasses issues at the application layer, transport layer, network layer, medium access control (MAC) layer, and physical layer of the network infrastructure. This chapter provides a detailed survey of the issues involved in supporting QoS across all the protocol layers in MANETs. We classify different approaches, discuss various techniques, and outline the future issues and challenges related to QoS provisioning in MANETs. In mobile ad hoc wireless communication, each node of the network has a potential of varying the topology through the adjustment of its power transmission in relation to other nodes in the neighbourhood. In contrast, wired networks have fixed established pre-configured infrastructure with centralized network management system structure in place. Therefore, the fundamental reason for the topology control scheme in MANET is to provide a control mechanism that maintains the network connectivity and performance optimization by prolonging network lifetime and maximizing network throughput. A MANET topology can depend on uncontrollable factors such as node mobility, weather, interference, noise as well as controllable factors such as transmission power, directional antennas and multi-channel communications. A bad topology can impact negatively on the network capacity by limiting spatial reuse capability of the communication channel and also can greatly undermine the robustness of the network. Where network capacity means the bandwidth and ability for it to be used for communication. A network partitioning can occur in a situation where the network topology becomes too sparse. Similarly, a network which is too dense is prone to interference at the medium access (MAC) layer, the physical layer of the network. So the network should neither be too dense nor too sparse for efficient communication amongst nodes to take place.

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