A SURVEY ON LOAD BALANCING ALGORITHMS IN MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKS

Abstract

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are self continuously self-configuring infrastructureless  network of mobile devices connected without wires. In multi hop wireless networks CSMA techniques enable the same radio resources to be used in distinct locations, leading to increased bandwidth efficiencies at the cost of possible collisions due to the hidden terminal problem. MANETs are increasing as applications evolve, which increases the importance of bandwidth efficiency, uniform load distribution protocols are useful for highly loaded MANETs. These protocols are not suited for non-uniform load distributions due to lack of on demand dynamic channel allocation mechanism. Hence a novel MAC protocol, CDCA-TRACE is used for cooperative load balancing and Dynamic channel allocation by improving the throughput, energy-consumption and inter-packet delay variation (IPDV)