Gateway Load Balancing in Integrated Internet- MANET to Improve Network Performance

Abstract — The mobile ad hoc networks have become a major component of the future network development due to their ease of deployment, self-configurability, flexibility and independence on any existing network infrastructure. There is a growing need to integrate these ad hoc networks to the Internet. For this purpose we need gateways which act as bridges between these two different protocols architectures. When a Mobile Ad Hoc network (MANET) is connected to the Internet, it is important for mobile nodes to detect available Internet gateway (IGW) providing access to the Internet. Gateway discovery time have strong influence on packet delay and throughput. In most of the cases, a mobile node uses min-hops to the gateway to communicate a fixed host connected to an Internet. These dynamic gateways can use Mobile IP and DSDV protocol when they communicate with the internet and interact with MANET. Integrated Internet-MANET is the Interconnection of wired Internet and wireless mobile ad hoc networks that enable to communicate between wired and wireless peers