Quick Routing for Communication in MANET using Zone Routing Protocol

Mobile Adhoc Networks is non-infrastructure, self configuring and decentralized set of mobile nodes. So the routing protocols for mobile adhoc networks have to face the challenge of frequently changing topology low transmission power and asymmetric links. This work deals with one of the most popular routing protocols in MANETs i.e. Zone Routing Protocol (ZRP). In this work, we address the issue of self configuring framework for the ZRP to provide the best performance for a particular network at any time. As the name indicates the MANET’s are specially defined for the mobility of the nodes in the networks. The nodes may move at a different speed, which may enter or move out of the network, which leads the delay, jitter, and link failure conditions during the transmission of packets. In the large networks, the more number of nodes will accept these parameters at a same time or random time. Such that scalability problem in the network may arise. Without a fixed infrastructure, mobile adhoc networks have to rely on the portable, limited power sources. Therefore the energy-efficiency becomes one of the most important problems in MANETs. Other challenging aspects on MANETs are node cooperation, interoperation with the internet, aggregation, multicast as well as changing the network topologies. Technologies such as smart antennas, software’s will also bring new problems along with impetus to adhoc to MANETs. We discuss the factors influencing on improvement in performance of Zone routing protocol, performed in number of related works. This work is based on literature research. The proposed protocol is based on the principle of self reconfiguring, multicast, query detection based, low bit error rate mode of operation. This work aims to optimize the Quality of Service in transmission for the zone routing protocol. Through test-bed simulation, we demonstrate that our proposed work will allow the ZRP to operate a better reconfiguration framework during link failure conditions.