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Abstract

The main objective of this paper is to the dynamic estimation of Bandwidth Delay Product for all nodes in the neighbour list, consecutively to enhance communication in MANETs. This is achieved by using variable bit rate routing in IEEE 802.11 networks. Energy and BDP together contribute to the routing efficiency progress in mobile networks; therefore, we investigate on the feasibility of designing a mechanism to do the same in MANETs. A bandwidth delay product based routing (BDPR) is proposed for TCP communication in MANETs. Generally, BDP should be kept low enough so that there are less chances of packet loss pertaining to the size of the queue. However, this metric is not used as a primary measure to ensure that there is higher throughput for a path. Therefore, this paper gives a novel attempt in using the Bandwidth of a node and energy of a node in combination with the BDP of the path to provide greater throughput. The performance is analyzed using simulations in the network simulator to understand the percentage improvement of the same.