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Load on nodes in ad-hoc networks appears in two major aspects: traffic and power consumption. Unbalanced traffic may lead to more delay, packet dropping and decreasing packet delivery ratio. Unbalanced energy consumption leads to node failure, network partitioning and decreases network lifetime and route reliability. In this paper, an efficient routing protocol known as PCRM (Packet Count based Routing Mechanism) is presented. It is created as an add-on to Qualnet 4.5. This is a modification to Dynamic Source Routing protocol (DSR) under ad-hoc networks. The proposed protocol finds the least used path for sending data packets rather than selecting minimum hop count as in DSR. The simulations are carried out in Qualnet 4.5 and the results are compared with DSR routing protocol.
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Nagarjun, B., Sathish, L., Chaitanya, S.S., Ansari, M.T., Tapaswi, S. (2010). Packet Count Based Routing Mechanism – A Load Balancing Approach in MANETS. In: Zavoral, F., Yaghob, J., Pichappan, P., El-Qawasmeh, E. (eds) Networked Digital Technologies. NDT 2010. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 88. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14306-9_66
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