An Analytical Model for QoS Routing in TDMA-Based Ad Hoc Networks

Providing quality of service (QoS) in a mobile ad hoc network is a challenging task due to its peculiar characteristics. This paper aims at presenting a routing protocol which identifies a path between a given source and a destination in TDMA-based ad hoc networks. This path is examined for satisfying QoS in terms of end-to-end delay. For that purpose, we introduce an analytical model for end-to-end delays incurred by a packet from a given source to a destination. We have evaluated the performance of our protocol through simulation. The proposed protocol performs better in term of QoS satisfaction ratio as compared to existing protocols.