Mobility Metrics for Routing in MANETs

A Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) is a collection of wireless mobile nodes forming a temporary network without the need for base stations or any other pre–existing network infrastructure. In a peer-to-peer fashion, mobile nodes can communicate with each other by using wireless multihop communication. Due to its low cost, high flexibility, fast network establishment and self-reconfiguration, ad hoc networking has received much interest during the last ten years. However, without a fixed infrastructure, frequent path changes cause significant numbers of routing packets to discover new paths, leading to increased network congestion and transmission latency over fixed networks. Many on-demand routing protocols have been developed by using various routing mobility metrics to choose the most reliable routes, while dealing with the primary obstacle caused by node mobility. ¶ In the first part, we have developed an analysis framework for mobility metrics in random mobility model. ... ¶ In the second part, we investigate the mobility metric applications on caching strategies and hierarchy routing algorithm. ..

Snapshots of the EYES project

The EYES project (IST-2001-34734) is a three years European research project on self-organizing and collaborative energy-efficient sensor networks. It addresses the convergence of distributed information processing, wireless communications, and mobile computing. The goal of the project is to develop the architecture and the technology which enables the creation of a new generation of sensors that can effectively network together so as to provide a flexible platform for the support of a large variety of mobile sensor network applications. This paper provides a broad overview of the EYES project and highlights some approaches and results of the architecture

Information Centric Networking in the IoT: Experiments with NDN in the Wild

This paper explores the feasibility, advantages, and challenges of an ICN-based approach in the Internet of Things. We report on the first NDN experiments in a life-size IoT deployment, spread over tens of rooms on several floors of a building. Based on the insights gained with these experiments, the paper analyses the shortcomings of CCN applied to IoT. Several interoperable CCN enhancements are then proposed and evaluated. We significantly decreased control traffic (i.e., interest messages) and leverage data path and caching to match IoT requirements in terms of energy and bandwidth constraints. Our optimizations increase content availability in case of IoT nodes with intermittent activity. This paper also provides the first experimental comparison of CCN with the common IoT standards 6LoWPAN/RPL/UDP.Comment: 10 pages, 10 figures and tables, ACM ICN-2014 conferenc

Cache timeout strategies for on-demand routing in MANETs

Varying the route caching scheme can significantly change network performance for on-demand routing protocols in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). Initial route caching schemes retain paths or links until they are shown to be broken. However, stale routing information can degrade network performance with latency and extra routing overhead. Therefore, more recent caching schemes delete links at some fixed time after they enter the cache. This paper proposes using either the expected path duration or the link residual time as the link cache timeout. These mobility metrics are theoretically calculated for an appropriate random mobility model. Simulation results in NS2 show that both of the proposed link caching schemes can improve network performance in the dynamic source routing protocol (DSR) by reducing dropped data packets, latency and routing overhead, with the link residual time scheme out-performing the path duration scheme.IEEE, South Australian Sectio

Performance Analysis of Dynamic Source Routing Protocol

Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) is an efficient on-demand routing protocol for mobile ad-hoc networks (MANET). It depends on two main procedures: Route Discovery and Route Maintenance. Route discovery is the procedure used at the source of the packets to discover a route to the destination. Route Maintenance is the procedure that discovers link failures and repairs them. Route caching is the sub procedure serviceable to avoid the demand for discovering a route or to reduce route discovery delay before every data packet is sent. The goal of this paper is to evaluate the performance of DSR. Different performance expressions are investigated including, delivery ratio, end to-end delay, and throughput, depending on different cache sizes and different speeds. All of that as a study to develop a new caching strategy as a future work.Comment: 4 page