Applicability of sub graph centrality to improve data accessibility among peers in MANETs.

Data sharing plays an essential role in many of the mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) applications that exhibits collaborative behavior. In such applications, replication is used as a foremost and fundamental technique to improve data availability. However, due to the dynamic nature of the network, data replication becomes more intricate in MANET. To alleviate this problem, we have proposed a mechanism which not only enhances data accessibility, replicates data in a minimum number of nodes, relocates shared data on the prediction of mobility of replica holder and in addition, data can be accessed by any node in a minimum number of hops. In our approach, we have prefaced mathematical concept known as minimum dominating set and sub graph centrality principle to decide the number of replicas both in static and dynamic environment. Simulation results when compared with the existing mechanisms shows that the response time or data access delay is reduced, client can access the data from the server in a minimum number of hops, and consequently the number of forwarded messages to access the data are greatly reduced thus making our network energy efficient. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]