Location management in mobile ad hoc wireless networks using quorums and clusters

Position‐based reactive routing is a scalable solution for routing in mobile ad hoc networks. The route discovery algorithm in position‐based routing can be efficiently implemented only if the source knows the current address of the destination. In this paper, a quorum‐based location management scheme is proposed. Location servers are selected using the minimum dominating set (MDS) approach, and are further organized into quorums for location update and location query. When a mobile node moves, it updates its location servers in the update quorum; when a node requests the location information of another node, it will send a query message to the location servers in the query quorum. We propose to use the position‐based quorum system, which is easy to construct and guarantees that the update quorums always intersect with the query quorums so that at least one location server in the query quorum is aware of the most recent location of the mobile node. Clusters are introduced for large scale ad hoc networks for scalability. Experiment results show that the proposed scheme provides good scalability when network size increases. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Hierarchical location service for wireless sensor networks with mobile sinks

In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), a mobile sink can help eliminate the hotspot effect in the vicinity of the sink, which can balance the traffic load in the network and thus improve the network performance. Location‐based routing is an effective routing paradigm for supporting sink mobility in WSNs with mobile sinks (mWSNs). To support efficient location‐based routing, scalable location service must be provided to advertise the location information of mobile sinks in an mWSN. In this paper, we propose a new hierarchical location service for supporting location‐based routing in mWSNs. The proposed location service divides an mWSN into a grid structure and exploits the characteristics of static sensors and mobile sinks in selecting location servers. It can build, maintain, and update the grid‐spaced network structure via a simple hashing function. To reduce the location update cost, a hierarchy structure is built by choosing a subset of location servers in the network to store the location information of mobile sinks. The simulation results show that the proposed location service can significantly reduce the communication overhead caused by sink mobility while maintaining high routing performance, and scales well in terms of network size and sink number. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

ZGLS: a novel flat quorum-based and reliable location management protocol for VANETs

In location management services, a destination advertises its position attributes to a set of vehicles called location servers while, a source obtains these attributes from such location servers to track destination. The location management techniques in VANET have been categorized into flooding-based, flat hashing-based, hierarchical hashing-based and hierarchical quorum-based techniques. In flooding-based location service, destination information is flooded to the entire network which results into high congestion, low throughput and non-scalable network. In flat hashing, a global hash function is applied to compute location servers of each destination which results into higher delay, drop and signaling overhead in large VANETs. In hierarchical hashing, global hash function computes location servers of destination in hierarchical order. It therefore suffers from handover signaling between servers, high load on the top hierarchy and location query delay when source and destination are apart. In hierarchical quorum-based, location servers are identified cluster-wise and therefore it also suffers from the problems similar to hierarchical techniques. To overcome these problems, ZoomOut Geographic Location Service (ZGLS) protocol is proposed which introduces flat quorum-based location management service. In contrast to the aforementioned techniques, the novelty of ZGLS lies in the fact that it has shifted the location server role from hashing-based or clustering-based geographic areas to few 1-hop neighbours, called relatives. The proposed protocol creates a chain of relatives to provide positioning and tracking service. To evaluate signalling overhead, timeliness and the reliability of update and query packets, ZGLS is compared with RLSMP and HRHLS through ns-2 simulations. The results reveal that ZGLS stands out as a better choice for large-scale sparse and dense VANETs.     

Moving Query Monitoring in Spatial Network Environments

Moving queries over mobile objects are an important type of query in moving object database systems. In recent years, there have been quite a few works in this area. Due to the high frequency in location updates and the expensive cost of continuous query processing, server computation capacity and wireless communication bandwidth are the two limiting factors for large-scale deployment of moving object database systems. Many techniques have been proposed to address the server bottleneck including one using distributed servers. To address both scalability factors, distributed query processing techniques have been considered. These schemes enable moving objects to participate in query processing to substantially reduce the demand on server computation, and wireless communications associated with location updates. Most of these techniques, however, assume an open-space environment. Since Euclidean distance is different from network distance, techniques designed specifically for an open space cannot be easily adapted for a spatial network. In this paper, we present a distributed framework which can answer moving query over moving objects in a spatial network. To illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework, we study two representative moving queries, namely, moving range queries and moving k-nearest-neighbor queries. Detailed algorithms and communication mechanisms are presented. The simulation studies indicate that the proposed technique can significantly reduce server workload and wireless communication cost.     

360 m 20 Gbit/s的W波段无线通信系统

为了满足未来空间高速通信的迫切需求,进行了W波段(75~110 GHz)无线高速通信的研究。通信系统中采用光子上变频技术产生传输速率为20 Gbit/s的W波段QPSK信号,解决了电子器件带宽受限的瓶颈问题。在接收机端采用模拟下变频和先进数字信号处理技术,实现了无线传输360 m距离后信号的离线解调。最终系统的误码率小于硬判决前向纠错(FEC)门限3.8×10?3。     

基于代价函数的动态分布式解析映射机制

针对身份与位置的动态解析映射问题,依据终端的移动模式和通信特征,提出了一种基于代价函数的动态分布式移动解析映射机制。该机制将移动终端的通信状态划分为移动更新、均衡传输和解析查询3种通信模式,以最小化解析映射代价为目标,分别提出了基于分布式多播、一致性散列协同和主动式域内共享的解析映射方法,设计了对应的注册更新、解析查询和数据路由解析优化策略。仿真结果表明,该机制实现了移动过程中解析映射代价的最小化,具有较小的解析时延,对网络结构的动态变化具有良好的适应性。     

Predictive and Fault-Tolerant Location Service in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Using location information to help routing is often proposed as a means to achieve scalability in large mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). One of the biggest challenge in geographic routing protocols is the design of efficient distributed location services that can locate the positions of mobile nodes. The accurate positioning of mobile nodes in MANETs is important to location service scheme since they are related to efficiency of routing protocols. We propose a grid-based predictive Location Service (GPLS) scheme and a hole-tolerant grid-based predictive Location Service (GPLS-H) scheme. In proposed location service scheme GPLS and GPLS-H, the network is partitioned into grids and grids are divided into groups by using a HASH function, which guarantees the uniform distribution of location servers of a node in the network. The main contribution of this paper is that the proposed location service scheme GPLS and GPLS-H provide accurate location query capability by means of location prediction of mobile nodes and GPLS-H can tolerate the “holes” in grid networks. The simulation results show that the location service scheme GPLS and GPLS-H have better performance than CRLS and SLURP in query success ratio, query delay and location availability.     

Efficient WISH in an indoor environment

With the diffusion of wireless connections to Internet, the number of complex operations carried out from mobile users is increasing. To cope with bandwidth limitations and with disconnections, data caching is the most used technique. However for complex operation like dynamic searching a better solution is to take advantage of the multichannel property offered by CDMA protocol. In this case, cached documents can be allocated on distinguished channels in a dynamic way to obtain a better utilization of the radio communication links. We study a particular caching strategy suitable to be integrated with a radio-channel policy. We consider a semantic caching for intranet queries (or intranet searching) that takes advantage of data semantics by caching query answers instead of pages in order to exploit similarities between different queries. In fact, in a WLAN scenario, Internet activity is frequently composed by intranet searching operations characterized by local queries that aim to explore documents stored in a neighbor of the home site. We study benefits from a channel allocation strategy applied to intranet searching with semantic caching. Simulation experiments are carried out by considering an indoor scenario model where mobile clients perform keyword-based queries answered by local Web servers running application we refer to as WISH (Wireless Intranet SearcHing), an intranet searching tool based on semantic caching. The results show a 12% improvement in radio channel usage for 20% of users that share cached documents.     

Determination of the Registration Point for Location Update by Dynamic Programming in PCS

Location management is important to effectively keep track of mobile terminals with reduced signal flows and database queries. Even though dynamic location management strategies are known to show good performance, we in this paper consider the static location management strategy which is easy to implement. A system with single home location register and pointer forwarding is assumed. A mobile terminal is assumed to have memory to store the IDs of visitor location registers (VLRs) each of which has the forwarding pointer to identify its current location. To obtain the registration point which minimizes the database access and signaling cost from the current time to the time of power-off probabilistic dynamic programming formulation is presented. A Selective Pointer Forwarding scheme is proposed which is based on one-step dynamic programming. The proposed location update scheme determines the least cost temporary VLR which point forwards the latest location of the mobile. The computational results show that the proposed scheme outperforms IS-41, pure Pointer Forwarding, and One-step Pointer Forwarding at the expense of small storage and a few computations at the mobile terminals.     

TMWSNs中一种确保数据完整性的高能效时空Top-k查询协议

时空Top-k查询是TMWSNs（双层移动无线传感网）中的一类重要查询.在敌对环境中,攻击者易通过捕获TMWSNs中的关键节点来破坏时空Top-k查询的数据完整性.提出一种确保数据完整性的时空Top-k查询处理协议VIP-TQ.该协议利用虚拟化节点技术与绑定加密技术通过构建传感器节点的数据预处理方法、数据存储节点的时空Top-k查询处理方法以及Sink端的数据完整性验证方法来实现TMWSNs中时空Top-k查询的数据完整性保护.理论分析和实验结果显示,VIP-TQ能够以100%的概率侦测出不完整的时空Top-k查询结果,并具有相对已有方案更高的能效性.     

一种基于可移动锚节点的DV-HOP改进定位算法

当节点不均匀分布时,DV-Hop的定位精度较差。针对DV-Hop定位算法的缺陷,提出一种基于移动锚节点的改进DV-Hop定位算法。在网络中引入具有一定移动能力的锚节点,并构建锚节点之间的虚拟力模型,锚节点受到虚拟力作用发生移动,从而均匀的分布于整个网络,修正了DV-Hop对不均与分布网络适应性差的特点。仿真实验表明,与原始算法相比改进后的算法定位精度有较大提高。     

Optimal Distributed Location Management in Mobile Networks

An important issue in the design of future Personal Communication Services (PCS) networks is the efficient management of location information. In this paper, we consider a distributed database architecture for location management in which update and query loads of the individual databases are balanced. We obtain lower bounds to the worst-case delay in locating a mobile user, to the average delay, and to the call blocking probability. We then propose a dynamic location management algorithm that meets these lower bounds. The optimality of this algorithm with respect to these three performance measures, as well as simplicity, make it an appealing candidate for distributed location management in PCS networks.     

基于Chord覆盖网络索引结构的多属性查询

文中给出了一种基于Chord覆盖网络索引结构的多属性查询处理技术.利用卡诺图计算查询结果所在的节点,并以多播树的方式将查询请求发送到对应的节点上,从而实现了相邻数据之间的快速路由.实验证明了该方法在处理多属性查询时的有效性和高效性.     

A batch‐update strategy for the distributed HLRs architecture in PCS networks

Owing to the increasing population of mobile subscribers, the rapidly expanding signaling traffic has become a challenge to the mobility management in PCS networks. Multiple database schemes to reduce signal traffic and to solve the bottleneck problem of the single home location register (HLR) architecture have been proposed by many researchers. However, in most of the multiple location databases or HLR systems, extra signaling is required for the multiple database updates. We propose a batch‐update strategy, instead of the immediate update method, for the location‐tracking schemes with replication to reduce the signaling overhead. In this paper, we first introduce a distributed HLRs architecture in which each HLR is associated with a localized set of VLRs and the location registrations and queries are processed locally. Then we propose our batch‐update strategy and present two pointing schemes for inter‐HLR call deliveries. The numerical result shows that our approach can effectively decrease the signaling cost of location registration and call delivery compared with the IS‐41 standard. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A frequency‐aware data‐centric mechanism for wireless sensor networks

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are characterized by their low bandwidth, limited energy, and largely distributed deployment. To reduce the flooding overhead raised by transmitting query and data information, several data‐centric storage (DCS) mechanisms are proposed. However, the locations of these data‐centric nodes significantly impact the power consumption and efficiency for information queries and storage capabilities, especially in a multi‐sink environment. This paper proposes a novel dissemination approach, which is namely the dynamic data‐centric routing and storage mechanism (DDCRS), to dynamically determine locations of data‐centric nodes according to sink nodes' location and data collecting rate and automatically construct shared paths from data‐centric nodes to multiple sinks. To save the power consumption, the data‐centric node is changed when new sink nodes participate when the WSNs or some queries change their frequencies. The simulation results reveal that the proposed protocol outperforms existing protocols in terms of power conservation and power balancing. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

基于云的域名解析服务模型

针对现行域名解析系统存在各种性能和安全上的问题(例如,查询延迟、更新延迟、易受DoS攻击等),提出了一种新型的、可增量部署的、和现行DNS兼容的、具有更好性能的域名解析服务模型。此服务模型基于云技术,利用云及其网络架构来发布DNS记录,响应用户的域名解析请求,提供域名解析服务。在此服务模型中,云的节点服务器实现了域名解析器和权威域名服务器的功能,域名的权威DNS记录被发布到各节点服务器,DNS查询结果直接由节点服务器返回给用户(现行的DNS则需要访问多级域名服务器来完成对域名解析器中未缓存的DNS记录的解析)。理论分析和实验证明,此服务模型与现行的各种域名解析服务相比,其DNS查询延迟、更新延迟、故障应变能力、可靠性等各方面性能都有显著提高。     

Cooperative cache consistency maintenance for pervasive internet access

Cooperative caching is an important technique to support pervasive Internet access. In order to ensure valid data access, the cache consistency must be maintained properly. However, this problem has not been sufficiently studied in mobile computing environments, especially those with ad hoc networks. There are two essential issues in cache consistency maintenance: consistency control initiation and data update propagation. Consistency control initiation not only decides the cache consistency provided to the users, but also impacts the consistency maintenance cost. This issue becomes more challenging in asynchronous and fully distributed ad hoc networks. To this end, we propose the predictive consistency control initiation (PCCI) algorithm, which adaptively initiates consistency control based on its online predictions of forthcoming data updates and cache queries. In order to efficiently propagate data updates through multi‐hop wireless connections, the hierarchical data update propagation (HDUP) algorithm is proposed. Theoretical analysis shows that cooperation among the caching nodes facilitates data update propagation. Extensive simulations are conducted to evaluate performance of both PCCI and HDUP. Evaluation results show that PCCI cost‐effectively initiates consistency control even when faced with dynamic changes in data update rate, cache query rate, node speed, and number of caching nodes. The evaluation results also show that HDUP saves cost for data update propagation by up to 66%. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Optical quorum cycles for efficient communication

Many optical networks face heterogeneous communication requests requiring topologies to be efficient and fault tolerant. For efficiency and distributed control, it is common in distributed systems and algorithms to group nodes into intersecting sets referred to as quorum sets. We show efficiency and distributed control can also be accomplished in optical network routing by applying the same established quorum set theory. Cycle-based optical network routing, whether using SONET rings or p-cycles, provides the sufficient reliability in the network. Light-trails forming a cycle allow broadcasts within a cycle to be used for efficient multicasts. Cyclic quorum sets also have all pairs of nodes occurring in one or more quorums, so efficient, arbitrary unicast communication can occur between any two nodes. Efficient broadcasts to all network nodes are possible by a node broadcasting to all quorum cycles to which it belongs (\(O(\sqrt{N})\)). In this paper, we propose applying the distributed efficiency of the quorum sets to routing optical cycles based on light-trails. With this new method of topology construction, unicast and multicast communication requests do not need to be known or even modeled a priori. Additionally, in the presence of network link faults, greater than 99 % average coverage enables the continued operation of nearly all arbitrary unicast and multicast requests in the network. Finally, to further improve the fault coverage, an augmentation to the ECBRA cycle finding algorithm is proposed.     

Impact of node distance on selfish replica allocation in a mobile ad-hoc network

Many data replication techniques have been proposed to minimize performance degradation caused by network partitioning in a mobile ad-hoc network. Most of them assume that all mobile nodes collaborate fully in terms of sharing their memory space. However, in reality, some nodes may selfishly decide to only cooperate partially, or not at all, with other nodes. Recently, a new approach to selfish replica allocation has been proposed to handle node selfishness. However, there is still much room for improvement. We empirically observe that the previous selfish replica allocation strategy suffers from long query delay and poor data accessibility, because it utilizes only non-selfish nodes that may be faraway nodes. In this paper, we propose a novel replica allocation strategy in the presence of selfish nodes, that takes into account both selfish behavior and node distance. Moreover, through a novel node leveling technique, we utilize the memory space of all connected nodes, including selfish nodes. The conducted simulations demonstrate that the proposed strategy outperforms existing replica allocation techniques in terms of data accessibility, query delay, and communication cost.     

能量高效的无线传感器网络时空查询处理算法

 在无线传感器网络环境中,用户经常提交的查询是时空查询,如“获得区域A在某个给定时间段内的感知数据”.由于传感器节点能量十分有限,因此,能量高效的时空查询处理是目前亟需解决的问题.首先指出了现有的时空查询处理算法能量消耗大的原因在于查询协调节点选择不合理.然后给出了理论上最优的查询协调节点的位置及其证明,并基于该理论提出了一类能量高效的传感器网络时空查询算法ECSTA.最后通过实验分析了节点密度和查询区域大小对算法能量消耗的影响.理论和实验结果表明ECSTA算法优于现有的STWin框架下的算法.