KIRAN KANUKUNTLA
CS898t - Wireless/Mobile Communications
**Dr. CHANG**

Semester Paper Project Proposal
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Self-Learning Ad-Hoc Routing Protocol
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***************SCOPE******************
An increasing emphasis on mobile wireless ad-hoc networks is driven by their independence of a fixed infrastructure, 
easier deployment, and the ability to reconfigure them with the least disruption of services. The performance of an 
ad-hoc routing protocol within an ad-hoc network is crucial towards the establishment of an efficient communication 
mechanism between the various ad-hoc nodes.
The current paper presents an enhancement to the AODV routing protocol called the Self Learning Ad-hoc Routing Protocol 
(SARP). Due to the large number of routes learned through forwarding packets and the enhanced route discovery procedure, 
the overhead created by SARP is reduced. The performance of SARP is compared with AODV in terms of data packet delivery 
ratio, average end-to-end delay, and control overhead at each node at any given time. Simulation results show that SARP 
reduces the routing protocol overheads by about 34% and increases the data packet delivery ratio by up to 26% as 
compared to those by AODV.


************ Major Goals **************
What is Self Learning Ad-hoc protocol?
How SARP enhances AODV routing protocol?
Comparison of data packet delivery ratio in AODV routing protocol and SARP.
Comparison of end-to-end delay in AODV routing protocol and SARP.
Comparison of control overhead at each node at any given time in AODV routing protocol and SARP.

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