A Deep Learning-Based Reliable Link Prediction Model for Achieving Traffic-Aware Routing in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks

Abstract

One of the most promising wireless network architectures is the mobile ad-hoc network (MANET). Researchers have introduced enormous protocols for efficient routing, but it does not provide a reliable communication link for data transmission. Therefore, this research proposes a reliable link prediction-based traffic-aware deep learning routing protocol in MANET to maintain path stability and reliability to construct efficient routing. The reliable traffic-aware link prediction model used in this research is Fuzzy-based Deep Extreme [Formula: see text]-Learning (FDEQL) model. The fuzzy logic rule is used to compute the status of a wireless link to build stable and faster paths toward destinations. Traffic patterns can affect the efficiency of a node. So, to cope with the traffic pattern in MANET, the point-to-point (P2P) and end-to-end (E2E) traffic matrices are initially constructed. To evaluate whether the wireless link is reliable or not, the proposed approach utilizes fuzzy rules by considering essential parameters such as neighborhood overlap (NOVER), bipartivity index (BI), node mobility (NM), data rate (DR), received signal strength indicator (RSSI) and buffer occupancy (BO). The output is the [Formula: see text]-value for reliable link prediction. The performance of a proposed model is validated with other baseline methods based on various measures such as energy consumption, route failure, throughput, delay, packet delivery ratio (PDR), normalized routing load (NRL) and buffer occupancy by varying the mobility speed from 5 to 30[Formula: see text]m/sec, number of nodes and simulation time, respectively. At the mobility speed of 10[Formula: see text]m/sec, the proposed model has a delay of 0.08 sec, PDR of 99% and throughput of 1903.4[Formula: see text]kbps. The proposed model achieves a delay of 19.37[Formula: see text]msec, PDR of 96.22%, and throughput of 132.95[Formula: see text]kbps, respectively, for 30 nodes. If the simulation runs for 300 sec, the suggested model achieves a delay of 2.98 sec and a PDR of 0.946, respectively.