Mobile Agent Based Protocol for Location Management in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a wireless multi-hop network, where the nodes interact with each other without any prior defined infrastructure. In MANET, applications leads to many complicated challenges such as location management of devices, services etc. Moreover, the applications need various requirements with underlying network in terms of response time, location accuracy of nodes etc. The dynamically changing network topology of MANET because of mobility of nodes leads to difficulty in their movement prediction and getting current location information. We propose in this paper, a mobile agent based protocol for location management in MANETs, for providing high quality of service to the distributed application running at the nodes of MANET with out any interruption intelligently. The proposed protocol estimates and predicts the mobile nodes location based on the their location information and history of movement patterns, by making use of static agents and mobile agents. The framework, Java Agent Development Environment (JADE) is used for simulation to realise the functionality of the protocol by agents generation, agent migration, and for communication among the agents. Simulation results shows that the proposed protocol ingest less time, provides better accuracy of location information, lower network overhead, consume less resources of the network.