IMPROVED LINK MANAGEMENT BASED SOURCE ROUTING PROTOCOL FOR MANET

Abstract

The routing layer has received a lot of attraction while making research on MANETs. Unlike wired routings,
Information transmitted in a wireless routing may be over heard by devices which do not intend to receive the
Information thereby resulting in collision. One of our aims is to build a wireless router links almost as wired
connections performance. Pragmatic information sharing represents a promising solution. Anyway it has not
been widely used in MANET because of the insufficient of an efficient routing method with strong source
routing receptivity. In order to support opportunistic information sharing in MANETs, ILMSR (Improved Link
Management based Source routing) has been proposed which can maintain more routing topology information to
facilitate source routing so that Information can be properly routed to the destination. Moreover it has much
smaller overhead when compared to proactive protocols.