A Novel Cognitive Method for Throughput Improvement of Mobile Multi-Hop Ad Hoc Networks

Abstract

We had previously defined a novel cognitive method for throughput improvement of IEEE 802.16j mobile multi-hop ad-hoc network which enables better management of the spectral access and buffer management of the nodes in the network. By this method we had minimized the packet loss ratio and improved the throughput of IEEE 802.16j network. In this study, a novel cognitive buffer management algorithm is proposed that arranges the packets stored in the buffers of the nodes in a probabilistic way and selects correct packet of the correct node to transmit first to provide fewer packet losses and also fewer average hop-counts for more throughputs. It is shown that the novel proposed buffer management algorithm provides about 19.45 % more throughput improvement (on average) with respect to the results evaluated by the buffer management algorithm used before (which was also shown to provide 12 % throughput improvement with respect to a First In First Out buffer management algorithm). All the results evaluated in this study are also confirmed by the results of analytical calculations, the results of the developed simulation program and the results evaluated in the literature.