Enhanced DSR Routing Protocol for the Short Time Disconnected MANET

Abstract

Data delivery in Mobile Ad-Hoc network (MANET) is a very difficult task due to the fact the sporadic connections between mobile nodes. For this reason, we introduce the new modified routing protocol that enables the data delivery in the case that the connections are disconnected. A key aspect of the protocol is a process of finding connections between source and destination nodes that can provide low end-to-end delay and better delivery performance in a disconnected MANET. The protocol provides the concepts of opportunistic routing of the routing packets in disconnected MANETs. In this paper we present a modification of the DSR routing protocol and also some results of a simulation.

Keywords

• MANET
• opportunistic forwarding
• DSR
• OPNET modeler