Efficient Flooding in MANET Using Fuzzy Linear Regression

A mobile Ad-Hoc network is a multi-hop wireless network, where nodes communicate with each other without any pre-deployed infrastructure. Due to the highly dynamic topology and absence of any fixed infrastructure in a mobile Ad-Hoc network, a reconfiguration of the system is often unavoidable. So, it is vital to keep the topology stable as long as possible. First, describing briefly the characteristics of mobile Ad Hoc networks, the related works is compared in this paper. It is shown that most of the predicting algorithms are not suited to the application for routing under consideration. And then, to keep the topology stable, a fuzzy linear regression model to predict a more long-live link for routing in a mobile Ad Hoc network(MANET) is studied and a framework for analytical modeling of the path reliability is provided. Analytical results show that to reduce link failure probability, we should select long-live link as far as possible. Compared with AODV routing protocol, simulation results show that the protocol has high packet delivery ratio with low control overhead.