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Abstract
Integration of Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs) to the Internet has many usage scenarios and provides many advantages for both networks together. However, such integration gives rise to a number of challenges.
In this thesis, an efficient and complete framework that comprises the main phases of the solution for MANET-Internet integration is proposed. A proposed Adaptive Distributed Multipath Internet GateWays (ADMIGW) discovery protocol is presented, where the gateways advertise their information with a dynamic interval to an adaptive limited number of mobile nodes. For mobile nodes that cannot receive this information, an efficient dynamic routing algorithm for MANETs-Internet integration inspired by the Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithms is proposed. In addition, an improved QoS-based IGW selection mechanism providing load-balancing is proposed. The simulation results show that the proposed framework has a great impact on improving the delay and the delivery ratio, while attaining tolerable overhead and fair load distribution among all gateways.