Quality of service (QoS) in mobile ad hoc networks

Masteroppgave i informasjons- og kommunikasjonsteknologi 2006 - Høgskolen i Agder, GrimstadMobile ad hoc networks inherits several of the issues that ordinary wireless networks have and include several new ones. With internet becoming a multi media enviroment, there are many new requirements that must be satisfied, especially when it comes to real time service. Quality of servce protocol for MANETs has been a topic of interest. In this paper I propose a QoS –aware bandwidth protocol based on available bandwidth calculation. My proposal is based on a few existing proposals today and the theory around these. I then show an implementation available bandwidth calculation and routing functions. This implementation has not been completely sucsessful. This paper should give a view on what is necessary to achieve quality of service in a MANET