TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background to the Study
1.2 Statement of the Problem
1.3 Objective of the Study
1.4 Motivation
1.5 Research Question
1.6 Significance of the Study
1.7 Scope of the Study
1.8 Operational Definition of Terms
CHAPTER TWO: REVIEW OF LITERATURE
2.0 Introduction
2.1 Generalities and Challenges in Adhoc Network
2.2 Applications of Adhoc Network
2.2.1 Data Communication in Adhoc network
2.2.2 Routing in Adhoc Network
2.2.2.1 Table Driven Protocol
2.2.2.2 On Demand Routing Protocol
2.2.2.3 Hybrid or Mixed Routing Protocol
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2.2.2.4 Unicast Routing Protocols
2.2.2.5 Multicast Routing Protocols
2.3 Challenges in Adhoc Network
2.4 Connection Stability in Wireless Adhoc Network
2.5 Quality of Service
2.5.1 Quality of Service in MANET
2.5.2 Factors influencing Quality of Service of Wireless Network
2.5.3 Quality of Service Routing
2.6 Major Challenges in MANET
2.7 Insect Societies to Network Protocols
2.8 Swarm Intelligence
2.9 Energy Efficiency in MANET
2.10 Application of MANET
2.11 Protocol Techniques for MANET
2.11.1 Routing Protocols for Mobile Adhoc Network
2.12 Various Techniques at different levels
2.12.1 Techniques employed in Power Reduction at the Physical Layer
2.12.2 Techniques at the Link Layer
2.12.3 Techniques at the Transport Layer
2.12.4 Techniques employed at the Medium Access Control Layer
2.12.5 Techniques applied at the Network Layer
2.12.6 Techniques at the Middleware and Application Layers
2.12.7 Other Approaches
2.13 Review of Works
CHAPTER THREE: METHODOLOGY
3.0 Overview
3.1 Determination of Power Consumption Modes
3.2 Simulation Approach for Energy Conservation in MANET
3.3 Development of Routing Algorithm
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3.4 Development of Hybrid Routing Protocol
3.4.2 Adaptive PSO
3.4.3 Pseudocode of distributed PSO (DPSO)
3.4.5 Implementation with Heuristics Algorithm
3.4.6 Proposed Algorithm
3.4.7 Improved Swarm Optimization Algorithm
3.4.8 Stochastic Contriction Swarm Optimization Algorithm
3.5 Evaluation based on Performance Metric
CHAPTER FOUR: DATA ANALYSIS, RESULTS AND
DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS
4.1 Data Analysis
4.2 Simulation Environment
4.3 Simulation Setup
4.4 Result Presentation for the Routing Protocols
4.5 Result Analysis for Highest Degree Heuristic Algorithm
CHAPTER FIVE: SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND
RECOMMENDATIONS
5.1 Summary
5.2 Conclusion
5.3 Recommendations
References
Appendices