Path Load Balanced Adaptive Gateway Discovery in Integrated Internet-MANET

An interconnection of mobile ad hoc network and wired Internet is called Integrated Internet-MANET. This interconnection is achieved through gateways. There are two very important issues in Integrated Internet-MANET. First, path load balancing in the communication of mobile nodes with gateways. Second, mobile nodes register with a gateway before communication begins. This registration is achieved through agent advertisement messages. The issue is, for how many hops these gateway advertisement messages must be forwarded. In this paper we propose a gateway discovery algorithm which addresses the above issues. Simulation results show that our approach outperforms the existing approach.