To enhance performance of protocols a Cross Layer- Performance Enhancement Architecture (CL-PEA) is proposed. In this architecture one hardware layer is added and all layers can exchange their parameters. CLPEA enhances the protocol performances by taking decisions on the basis of information available on layers. | International Journal of Computer Networks and Communications Security C VOL. 1, NO. 2, JULY 2013, 54–60 Available online at: ISSN 2308-9830 N C S Cross Layer- Performance Enhancement Architecture (CL-PEA) for MANET Mehajabeen Fatima1, Roopam Gupta2, T K Bandhopadhyay3 12 RGPV, Bhopal, India 3 BIST, Bhopal, India E-mail: , 2roopam_1710@, 3tushar_bando1@ ABSTRACT Internet is based on TCP/IP but TCP/IP architecture is not sufficient to cope with the dynamics of MANET. Number of architectures are already available in literature but cross layer architecture is most popular one. To enhance performance of protocols a Cross Layer- Performance Enhancement Architecture (CL-PEA) is proposed. In this architecture one hardware layer is added and all layers can exchange their parameters. CLPEA enhances the protocol performances by taking decisions on the basis of information available on layers. Keywords: TCP/IP, MANET, CL-PEA, Cross Layer, Protocol. 1 INTRODUCTION MANET is a special type of wireless network in which a collection of mobile network interfaces may form a temporary network without the aid of any established infrastructure or centralized administration. Ad Hoc wireless network has applications in emergency search-and-rescue operations, decision making in the battlefield, data acquisition operations in hostile terrain, etc. It is featured by dynamic topology, multi-hop communication, limited resources (bandwidth, CPU, battery, etc.) and limited security [1]. An accelerating energy crisis in the oil and gas industry leads the development and investment in MANET technologies. Actually, the availability of crude oil in the remote area of seas, it is very difficult to implement infrastructure oriented network for communication. Here it is difficult to provide infrastructure in such places. And deployment of such network is very costly. Sometimes the working staff faces disastrous situations in .
