176 ◾ Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: Current Status and Future Trends
habitual QoS issues of traditional networks, MANETs involve new challenges to guarantee a set
of minimum quality levels [4–6].
All these new criteria, such as mobility or energy awareness, have been incorporated into dif-
ferent routing protocols, and therefore, from now on, the classical QoS parameters will not be the
only ones taken into consideration. e QoS management systems must interoperate with those
adopted routing schemes, and the resulting interactions must be carefully analyzed.
Table 7.2 represents a summary of the most relevant QoS routing protocols developed for
MANETs [7,8].
e maximum interest in the development of protocols with QoS support for multi ...