Packet Routing using Optimal Flooding Protocol in Cluster based MANET

In Mobile ad-hoc network, the topology of the network changes rapidly, as the mobile nodes are self-configuring. In non-uniform load distribution, the bandwidth utilization is efficiently managed by dynamic channel allocation and co-operative load balancing algorithm. Also, the investigation of routing layers has not been discussed, so this paper is mainly focused on packet routing using optimal flooding protocol. Some form of flooding is used by most of the ad-hoc routing protocols for location discovery and route of a mobile node. There will be propagation of unnecessary messages even after optimization, therefore in optimal flooding protocol, unnecessary transmissions are minimized by selective transmission there by reducing the overhead. The efficiency of OFP remains very high in large networks.