This document proposes an improved quality of service protocol for real-time traffic in mobile ad hoc networks. It presents a modified version of the AODV routing protocol that provides two key improvements: 1) A balanced best-effort traffic aware route discovery mechanism that selects paths with lower ratios of best-effort packets to minimize their impact on real-time traffic. 2) A packet forwarding procedure that gives transmission priority to real-time packets by transmitting them immediately from the queue while best-effort packets have to wait, improving throughput for real-time applications. Simulation results show the proposed protocol performs better than basic AODV in terms of throughput and delay for real-time traffic.
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