Efficient Routing in MANETs by Optimizing Packet Loss

In self-forming Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs), the work introduces dynamic routing for heterogeneous nodes in an infrastructure-limited environment. Military, healthcare, and disaster recovery applications require efficient communication on these networks. Further, multi-hop MANET communication requires reducing packet loss due to energy limits and buffer overflow. The proposed routing mechanism selects energy-efficient, uncongested intermediary nodes and dynamically optimized routes for communication depending on packet loss likelihood. It greatly lowers packet loss, improving network reliability. Our mechanism outperforms energy-aware, buffer-aware, and reactive protocols in network lifetime and packet delivery. We quantify these improvements to verify our mechanism’s effectiveness. The proposed mechanism makes MANETs a reliable solution for important applications by proactively optimizing routes to reduce packet loss.