Title: IEZRP: an improved enhanced zone-based routing protocol for MANETs and its performance evaluation

Authors: Akio Koyama; Yuki Sato; Leonard Barolli

Addresses: Department of Informatics, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamagata University, 4-3-16 Jonan, Yonezawa, Yamagata 992-8510, Japan. ' Department of Informatics, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamagata University, 4-3-16 Jonan, Yonezawa, Yamagata 992-8510, Japan. ' Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, 3-30-1 Wajiro-higashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 811-0295, Japan

Abstract: In recent years, there are many research works on ad hoc networks. The routing protocols play an important role for construction of ad hoc networks. In this paper, we propose a new zone-based routing protocol, called improved EZRP (IEZRP), which reduces the number of control packets. In the conventional routing protocols, the control packets are transmitted periodically. However, in IEZRP, the control packets are only transmitted when nodes are moving. The performance evaluation via simulations shows that the IEZRP has better performance than EZRP.

Keywords: mobile networks; mobile ad hoc networks; MANETs; routing protocols; zone routing protocol; enhanced ZRP; improved EZRP; IEZRP; zone-based protocols; proactive routing; reactive routing; wireless networks; situated computing; control packets; simulation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSSC.2011.043502

International Journal of Space-Based and Situated Computing, 2011 Vol.1 No.4, pp.213 - 221

Received: 30 Dec 2010
Accepted: 12 Feb 2011

Published online: 26 Mar 2015 *

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