Quick Local Repair Scheme using Adaptive Promiscuous Mode in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

In mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), there is frequently disconnected a route consisting of multi-hop from a source to a destination because of the dynamic nature such as the topology change caused by nodes’ mobility. To overcome this situation, existing routing protocols for MANETs have performed route repair scheme to repair the disconnected route. However, existing reactive routing protocols have the problem which is that a source node unnecessarily performs re-discovers the whole path when just one node moves, even if the rest of path needs not to be re-arranged. Therefore, the time for re-discovery of the whole path may often take too long. To solve the problem, we propose a new local repair scheme using promiscuous mode. Our scheme is mainly composed of two parts: adaptive promiscuous mode and quick local repair scheme. Adaptive promiscuous mode is to repeat the switching processes between promiscuous mode and nonpromiscuous mode to overcome energy limit caused by using promiscuous mode in overall time and quick local repair scheme is to fast perform the local re-route discovery process with the information of the active connection in the local area acquired by promiscuous mode. With simulation in the various number of connection, We demonstrate the better network performances achieved with the proposed schemes as compared with AODV as reference model that do not provide local repair scheme.