New algorithm for packet routing in mobile ad-hoc networks

Abstract

Mobile ad-hoc networks (MANET) are one of wireless networks implementation. MANET is very popular technology initially based on military purposes. Specific modifications of MANET created a possibility to implement several new wireless networks. One of them is a wireless mesh network (WMN). Over the last ten years, WMNs have gained more and more attention and are now considered as a convincing solution for providing better Internet access services for end users. WMN is an emerging technology that offers a cost-effective and scalable method to connect wireless devices. The main problem in WMNs is a routing protocol, especially because it has to enable the access to network for both mesh and conventional clients. Most of the existing ad hoc routing protocols use minimum hop-count as a metric for identifying the best packet routes. This paper presents neural network based approach to routing protocol for WMN. Neural networks are capable to analyze very complex network environments and solve routing problems on optimal (or almost optimal) way.