Achieving QoS (Quality of Service) in Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks (MANET) has been a research topic in the last years. In this
paper we describe a QoS reservation mechanism for Routing Ad-hoc Networks. The mechanism is targeted for sources requiring
a bandwidth allocation. The mechanism is based on the knowledge of the bandwidth requirements of the neighbors of a node and
the interferent nodes in the cover area of each node. We describe as the protocol could be integrated in AODV and OLSR. We
also give simulation results showing the advantages of our reservation scheme.
This work was supported by the Ministry of Edu. of Spain under grant CICYT TIC-2001-0956-C04-01, by the Generalitat de Catalunya
under grant CIRIT 2001-SGR-00226, by the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders under Scientific Research Community Broadband
communication and multimedia services for mobile users, by DWTC Belgium under project IAP P5/11 MOTION (Mobile Multimedia
Communication Systems and Networks), by IWT under project 020152–End-to-end QoS in IP based Mobile Networks, by the European
NoE EuroNGI and by the European project WIDENS.