Abstract
Internet-assisted MANETs architecture is an emerging solution, strongly introduced in recent years. In fact, MANETs are self-configurable wireless network models for convenient communication between mobile nodes in the network. Because of simplicity, MANETs are applied in a series of domains to serve humanity, such as intelligent agriculture, intelligent transport system, and IoT ecosystem. To extend the ability of MANETs, the integration of Internet and MANETs to form Internet-assisted MANETs architecture was introduced in many studies. However, one of the biggest problems of this solution is how to choose the optimal Internet gateway. This study proposes a gateway selection mechanism based on parameters, including hop number and gateway traffic. To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed mechanism, we compare the proposed solution with previous solutions. The simulation results demonstrated that our solution improved end-to-end delay, routing overload, and loss packet ratio compared to previous protocols.
Highlights
Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANETs) is a network organization that can self-install and configure parameters to communicate within the network without relying on existing network infrastructure
To limit the overload of the Internet gateway in Internet-assisted mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) which have multiple Internet gateways, we propose a gateway selection algorithm for the load iJOE ‒ Vol 17, No 13, 2021
Integrating the mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) with the Internet introduces unprecedented abilities of MANET have been demonstrated in many services and applications
Summary
Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANETs) is a network organization that can self-install and configure parameters to communicate within the network without relying on existing network infrastructure. The most vital features of MANETs are fast deployment and self-configuration. To improve the performance of the Internet-assisted MANETs, one of the main problems is how to choose an Internet gateway [9]. The gateway that has the minimum hop numbers will be selected. In most scenarios, this solution led to all communication traffic between MANETs and the Internet focusing on this gateway and causing a bottleneck status, reducing system performance. The Internet gateway selection problem should trade-off between distance (hop number) and gateway traffic. In this study, we propose a traffic-based Internet gateway selection mechanism.
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