The communication range of devices within a mobile ad hoc network is inherently restricted. One way of enhancing the communication range of a mobile ad hoc network, is to interconnect it to a wired network like the internet, thus forming a heterogeneous wired cum wireless network. This interconnection also enables mobile nodes to access internet services, and is achieved through gateways. Mobile nodes in the ad hoc network need to discover and register with a gateway in order to obtain Internet connectivity. Gateway discovery mechanisms called proactive, reactive and hybrid exist to enable mobile nodes to register with internet gateways. In the recent times, few optimizations have been proposed to the existing gateway discovery mechanisms in order to make gateway discovery by mobile nodes efficient. In this paper, we present a detailed survey of the state of the art in gateway discovery and selection mechanisms

The traditional Web stores huge amount of data in the form of Relational Databases (RDB) as it is good at

Ontologies play a crucial role in bringing the Semantic Web vision to its full potential. Ontologies are developed at different levels of abstraction and by different people for various purposes. Knowledge represented by the ontologies is scattered because of existence of many ontologies representing the same concepts, therefore it becomes difficult to analyse, study and use the knowledge spread across many ontologies if they are studied individually. Knowledge represented by ontologies can be combined into a single ontology which is shown in this paper. Ontologies can be merged to combine the knowledge from different ontologies. In this paper we have shown the merger of two ontologies first ontology is university second ontology is the Student profile ontology containing details of Student which were developed in educational domain. Ontologies were developed and merged using protégé 4.0 alpha tools.

Quite a few strategies have been proposed for integrating mobile ad hoc networks and the Internet. A need has been felt for an analytical model that would facilitate a formal definition and comparison of different integration strategies without actually implementing them in a simulated environment. In this paper, we present an analytical framework based on the concept of a Relay Path Set (RPS). This model can be used to describe, compare the different strategies for integrating mobile Ad Hoc networks and the Internet, propose new strategies and suggest improvements in the existing strategies at different module levels. The proposed model has been applied on a few of the existing Integration strategies and performance comparison has also been made. We also discuss the future work that can be carried out using the proposed framework

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Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have been widely deployed in hostile locations for environmental monitoring. Sensor placement and energy management are the two main factors that should be focused due to certain limitations in WSNs. The nodes in a sensor network might not stay charged when energy draining takes place; therefore, increasing the operational lifespan of the network is the primary purpose of energy management. Recently, major research interest in WSN has been focused with the essential aspect of localization. Several types of research have also taken place on the challenges of node localization of wireless sensor networks with the inclusion of range-free and range-based localization algorithms. In this work, the optimal positions of Sensor Nodes (SNs) are determined by proposing a novel Hybrid M-ACO – PSO (HMAP) algorithm. In the HMAP method, the improved PSO utilizes learning strategies for estimating the relay nodes' optimal positions. The M-ACO assures the data conveyance. A route discovers when it relates to the ideal route irrespective of the possibility of a system that includes the nodes with various transmission ranges, and the network lifetime improves. The proposed strategy is executed based on the energy, throughput, delivery ratio, overhead, and delay of the information packets.

Abstract-In this paper, an extended DSDV protocol, named as Efficient DSDV (Eff-DSDV) protocol has been used to provide bidirectional connectivity between ad hoc nodes and the hosts in the Infrastructure-based networks. The proposed framework uses one of the ad hoc hosts known as Mobile Internet Gateway (MIG) to act as a bridge between the two networks. The detailed performance comparison has been made between the proposed approach using Eff-DSDV routing protocol and then using the regular DSDV protocol. The simulation results not only show that the performance of the proposed strategy using Eff-DSDV is superior to using DSDV but also it is better than other integration strategies.Index Terms-Eff-DSDV, Integration Strategy, Mobile ad hoc Network (MANET), Mobile Internet Gateway (MIG)