Title: Rough set-based quality of service optimisation guidelines with stack parameter in MANET

Authors: N. Prathviraj; Santosh L. Deshpande

Addresses: Manipal School of Information Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India ' Department of PG Studies, Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi, India

Abstract: In mobile ad hoc network (MANET), providing a guaranteed service for packet delivery has to pass through several hurdles. Providing guaranteed service should address multiple quality of service (QoS) parameters under uncertain network conditions. The QoS parameters should be prioritised in consideration of MANET constraints and applications running on MANET. The QoS aspects of MANET are impacted by the multi-layer stack parameters. An analysis has been conducted to identify the trade-off point for configuring the stack parameters to achieve better QoS in packet delivery. The outcome of analysis is discussed in terms of packet error rate, energy efficiency, goodput and delay with the support of rough set theory (RST). The multi-objective analysis capabilities of RST make it suitable for taking dynamic decision to prioritise the QoS parameter. The rough set derived decision rules are filtered out based on probabilistic properties like strength, certainty and coverage of the decision rules.

Keywords: mobile ad hoc network; MANET; quality of service; QoS; rough set theory; RST; rough set exploration system; RSES.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIDS.2021.116498

International Journal of Information and Decision Sciences, 2021 Vol.13 No.2, pp.127 - 142

Received: 29 Apr 2019
Accepted: 08 Jul 2019
Published online: 27 Jul 2021 *

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