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Spatial networks with wireless applications
Many networks have nodes located in physical space, with links more common
between closely spaced pairs of nodes. For example, the nodes could be wireless
devices and links communication channels in a wireless mesh network. We
describe recent work involving such networks, considering effects due to the
geometry (convex,non-convex, and fractal), node distribution,
distance-dependent link probability, mobility, directivity and interference.Comment: Review article- an amended version with a new title from the origina
Reliability of Mobile Agents for Reliable Service Discovery Protocol in MANET
Recently mobile agents are used to discover services in mobile ad-hoc network
(MANET) where agents travel through the network, collecting and sometimes
spreading the dynamically changing service information. But it is important to
investigate how reliable the agents are for this application as the
dependability issues(reliability and availability) of MANET are highly affected
by its dynamic nature.The complexity of underlying MANET makes it hard to
obtain the route reliability of the mobile agent systems (MAS); instead we
estimate it using Monte Carlo simulation. Thus an algorithm for estimating the
task route reliability of MAS (deployed for discovering services) is proposed,
that takes into account the effect of node mobility in MANET. That mobility
pattern of the nodes affects the MAS performance is also shown by considering
different mobility models. Multipath propagation effect of radio signal is
considered to decide link existence. Transient link errors are also considered.
Finally we propose a metric to calculate the reliability of service discovery
protocol and see how MAS performance affects the protocol reliability. The
experimental results show the robustness of the proposed algorithm. Here the
optimum value of network bandwidth (needed to support the agents) is calculated
for our application. However the reliability of MAS is highly dependent on link
failure probability
Mobile Conductance in Sparse Networks and Mobility-Connectivity Tradeoff
In this paper, our recently proposed mobile-conductance based analytical
framework is extended to the sparse settings, thus offering a unified tool for
analyzing information spreading in mobile networks. A penalty factor is
identified for information spreading in sparse networks as compared to the
connected scenario, which is then intuitively interpreted and verified by
simulations. With the analytical results obtained, the mobility-connectivity
tradeoff is quantitatively analyzed to determine how much mobility may be
exploited to make up for network connectivity deficiency.Comment: Accepted to ISIT 201
Research on Wireless Multi-hop Networks: Current State and Challenges
Wireless multi-hop networks, in various forms and under various names, are
being increasingly used in military and civilian applications. Studying
connectivity and capacity of these networks is an important problem. The
scaling behavior of connectivity and capacity when the network becomes
sufficiently large is of particular interest. In this position paper, we
briefly overview recent development and discuss research challenges and
opportunities in the area, with a focus on the network connectivity.Comment: invited position paper to International Conference on Computing,
Networking and Communications, Hawaii, USA, 201
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