Abstract:
We investigate preventive link maintenance scheme to on-demand routing
algorithms. The scheme of creating directional link is proposed to extend the life of link
that is about to break. We see the performance improvement at network layer by using the
proposed scheme. We do a comparative performance study between omni directional and
directional antennas for DSR (On-demand routing protocol) using simulation with OPNET.
By using directional antennas, substantial gain is achieved in terms of end-to-end delay,
aggregate throughput, average data packets dropped, packet delivery ratio, and routing
overhead. The proposed scheme is general and can be used with any other on-demand
routing algorithms.
