An Energy Consumption Model for Performance Analysis of Routing Protocols for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

A mobile ad hoc network (or manet) is a group of mobile, wireless nodes which cooperatively form a network independent of any fixed infrastructure or centralized administration. In particular, a manet has no base stations: a node communicates directly with nodes within wireless range and indirectly with all other nodes using a dynamically-computed, multi-hop route via the other nodes of the manet.Simulation and experimental results are combined to show that energy and bandwidth are substantively different metrics and that resource utilization in manet routing protocols is not fully addressed by bandwidth-centric analysis. This report presents a model for evaluating the energy consumption behavior of a mobile ad hoc network. The model was used to examine the energy consumption of two well-known manet routing protocols. Energy-aware performance analysis is shown to provide new insights into costly protocol behaviors and suggests opportunities for improvement at the protocol and link layers.     

Ariadne: A Secure On-Demand Routing Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks

An ad hoc network is a group of wireless mobile computers (or nodes), in which individual nodes cooperate by forwarding packets for each other to allow nodes to communicate beyond direct wireless transmission range. Prior research in ad hoc networking has generally studied the routing problem in a non-adversarial setting, assuming a trusted environment. In this paper, we present attacks against routing in ad hoc networks, and we present the design and performance evaluation of a new secure on-demand ad hoc network routing protocol, called Ariadne. Ariadne prevents attackers or compromised nodes from tampering with uncompromised routes consisting of uncompromised nodes, and also prevents many types of Denial-of-Service attacks. In addition, Ariadne is efficient, using only highly efficient symmetric cryptographic primitives.     

移动自组网QoS路由协议研究

移动自组网是由一组带有无线收发装置的移动节点组成的一个多跳的临时性的自治系统。随着无线通信中多媒体业务的增加,在移动自组网中提供QoS(Quality of Sevice服务质量)保障具有越来越重要的意义,而QoS路由技术则是其中的核心技术和热点问题。文章指出移动自组网QoS路由的困难,对移动自组网典型QoS路由协议进行了详细的分析与比较,并对几种较新的移动自组网QoS路由协议进行了介绍,末了对移动自组网QoS路由协议的发展进行了展望。     

A Query Scope Agent for Flood Search Routing Protocols

Flood-search on-demand routing has received considerable interest for its application to mobile ad hoc networks. To alleviate the effects of flooding the network with control packets to discover a route, the concept of an expanding ring search (ERS) has been proposed elsewhere for reducing the packet transmission overhead of the route discovery process. Essentially, ERS consists of incrementally increasing the allowable hop radius of the flood search until a route to the target node is returned. However, ERS incurs additional latency to successfully complete the route discovery procedure. This paper presents a query scope agent (QSA) that assists in the selection of an appropriate ERS. The QSA accepts as input, from the user or network application, a maximum allowable value for route discovery delay. The QSA then estimates network parameter values to determine an ERS approach that satisfies the delay requirement while reducing expected packet transmission overhead. Simulation results show that it successfully achieves this objective. Further, the QSA incurs little communication and computation overhead, and operates in a distributed and asynchronous fashion.     

移动Ad hoc网络基于干扰和连通度的路由协议

移动Ad hoc网络中,节点随机移动会引起通信链路频繁断开,从而导致路由失效,带来大量的路由重建与路由发现,耗费了有限的网络资源。传统按需路由中,采用简单的洪泛进行路由发现,路由请求包的盲目转发会带来大量不必要的冗余转发,造成广播风暴问题。此外,大量的数据包同时发送也会对彼此的传输造成干扰,增加数据包冲突概率。针对这种情况,本文提出一种基于干扰和连通度的路由协议,该协议结合节点的连通度和潜在干扰设计转发概率,不仅减少了路由请求包的传播范围,还减少了路由请求包的冲突概率,提高了传输成功率。仿真结果表明,本文设计的方案在减少路由开销的同时,有效提高了数据包投递率,从而提高了路由性能。     

基于时延调节的移动自组网多路径路由策略

针对AOMDV协议的多路径切换机制,提出了一种基于时延调节的移动自组网多路径路由策略,根据目的端获得的分组时延规律主动切换路径,达到负载均衡的目的。仿真实验结果表明,能在一定程度上降低路由开销以及延长网络生存时间。     

基于粒子群优化的ad hoc网络最小能耗多播路由算法

在无线ad hoc网络中,设备使用电池提供能量,随着多播应用日益广泛,如何构造最小能耗多播树是一个重要问题。针对选择不同的中继节点集对构造最小能耗多播树的影响,提出了一种优化最小能耗多播树构造的离散粒子群算法。为了避免离散粒子群算法早熟收敛,引入惯性权重策略,以平衡算法的全局搜索能力和局部搜索能力。模拟实验结果表明改进后的离散粒子群算法具有较强的优化能力,有效地优化了最小能耗多播树的构造。     

Algorithms for Energy-Efficient Multicasting in Static Ad Hoc Wireless Networks

In this paper we address the problem of multicasting in ad hoc wireless networks from the viewpoint of energy efficiency. We discuss the impact of the wireless medium on the multicasting problem and the fundamental trade-offs that arise. We propose and evaluate several algorithms for defining multicast trees for session (or connection-oriented) traffic when transceiver resources are limited. The algorithms select the relay nodes and the corresponding transmission power levels, and achieve different degrees of scalability and performance. We demonstrate that the incorporation of energy considerations into multicast algorithms can, indeed, result in improved energy efficiency.     

Scalable Routing Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks

In this paper we present a scalable routing protocol for ad hoc networks. The protocol is based on a geographic location management strategy that keeps the overhead of routing packets relatively small. Nodes are assigned home regions and all nodes within a home region know the approximate location of the registered nodes. As nodes travel, they send location update messages to their home regions and this information is used to route data packets. In this paper, we derive theoretical performance results for the protocol and prove that the control packet overhead scales linearly with node speed and as N ^3/2 with increasing number of nodes. These results indicate that our protocol is well suited to relatively large ad hoc networks where nodes travel at high speed. Finally, we use simulations to validate our analytical model.     

自组网环境下利用单向链路的能源节省路由研究

针对自组网中节点电源的容量限制，本文提出了一种利用单向链路的能源节省路由算法。该算法充分利用网络中存在的单向链路，通过让能源较多的节点承担较多的传输任务的方式为数据流选择最佳路由，以延长网络的生存时间。仿真结果证明了该算法的有效性，以及单向链路对于能源节省具有较高的价值。     

ABRP: Anchor-based Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Ad hoc networks, which do not rely on any infrastructure such as access points or base stations, can be deployed rapidly and inexpensively even in situations with geographical or time constraints. Ad hoc networks are attractive in both military and disaster situations and also in commercial uses like sensor networks or conferencing. In ad hoc networks, each node acts both as a router and as a host. The topology of an ad hoc network may change dynamically, which makes it difficult to design an efficient routing protocol. As more and more wireless devices connect to the network, it is important to design a scalable routing protocol for ad hoc networks. In this paper, we present Anchor-based Routing Protocol (ABRP), a scalable routing protocol for ad hoc networks. It is a hybrid routing protocol, which combines the table-based routing strategy with the geographic routing strategy. However, GPS (Global Positioning System) (Kaplan, Understanding GPS principles and Applications, Boston: Artech House publishers, 1996) support is not needed. ABRP consists of a location-based clustering protocol, an intra-cell routing protocol and an inter-cell routing protocol. The location-based clustering protocol divides the network region into different cells. The intra-cell routing protocol routes packets within one cell. The inter-cell routing protocol is used to route packets between nodes in different cells. The combination of intra-cell and inter-cell routing protocol makes ABRP highly scalable, since each node needs to only maintain routes within a cell. The inter-cell routing protocol establishes multiple routes between different cells, which makes ABRP reliable and efficient. We evaluate the performance of ABRP using ns2 simulator. We simulated different size of networks from 200 nodes to 1600 nodes. Simulation results show that ABRP is efficient and scales well to large networks. ABRP combines the advantages of multi-path routing strategy and geographic routing strategy—efficiency and scalability, and avoids the burden—GPS support.     

AMRoute: Ad Hoc Multicast Routing Protocol

The Ad hoc Multicast Routing protocol (AMRoute) presents a novel approach for robust IP Multicast in mobile ad hoc networks by exploiting user-multicast trees and dynamic logical cores. It creates a bidirectional, shared tree for data distribution using only group senders and receivers as tree nodes. Unicast tunnels are used as tree links to connect neighbors on the user-multicast tree. Thus, AMRoute does not need to be supported by network nodes that are not interested/capable of multicast, and group state cost is incurred only by group senders and receivers. Also, the use of tunnels as tree links implies that tree structure does not need to change even in case of a dynamic network topology, which reduces the signaling traffic and packet loss. Thus AMRoute does not need to track network dynamics; the underlying unicast protocol is solely responsible for this function. AMRoute does not require a specific unicast routing protocol; therefore, it can operate seamlessly over separate domains with different unicast protocols. Certain tree nodes are designated by AMRoute as logical cores, and are responsible for initiating and managing the signaling component of AMRoute, such as detection of group members and tree setup. Logical cores differ significantly from those in CBT and PIM-SM, since they are not a central point for data distribution and can migrate dynamically among member nodes. Simulation results (using ns-2) demonstrate that AMRoute signaling traffic remains at relatively low level for typical group sizes. The results also indicate that group members receive a high proportion of data multicast by senders, even in the case of a highly dynamic network.     

移动Ad hoc网络路由协议标准

通过重点说明互联网工程任务组(IETF)已通过的两个移动Ad hoc网络路由协议标准,使得相关工程人员在对应用于此种网络的路由协议有一个整体认识基础之上,进一步加深对移动Ad hoc网络原理的理解.     

A Two-Tier Heterogeneous Mobile Ad Hoc Network Architecture and Its Load-Balance Routing Problem

The mobile ad hoc network (MANET) has attracted a lot of interest recently. However, most of the existing works have assumed a stand-alone MANET. In this paper, we propose a two-tier, heterogeneous MANET architecture which can support Internet access. The low tier of the network consists of a set of mobile hosts each equipped with a IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN card. In order to connect to the Internet and handle the network partitioning problem, we propose that the high tier is comprised of a subset of the mobile hosts, called gateways, which can access to cellular/infrastructure networks. The high tier is heterogeneous in the sense that the network interfaces in the gateway hosts could be IEEE 802.11 cards, PHS handsets, or GPRS handsets characterized by different bandwidths and latencies. Observing that the gateways could become the bottlenecks of the two-tier network, we propose a set of solutions, namely boundary-moving, host-partitioning, and probabilistic solutions, to solve the load-balance routing issue. Implementation issues/concerns of these schemes are discussed. Simulation results are presented to compare these load-balance routing schemes.     

Route Maintenance in a Wireless Mobile Ad Hoc Network

A mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) is formed by a cluster of mobile hosts, without the infrastructure of base stations. To deal with the dynamic changing topology of a MANET, many routing protocols have been proposed. In this paper, we consider the route maintenance problem, which includes two parts: route deterioration and route breakage. In a MANET, a route may suddenly become broken because only one host roams away. Even if a route remains connected, it may become worse due to host mobility or a better route newly being formed in the system. Existing protocols, however, will stick with a fixed route once it is discovered, until it is expired or broken. In this paper, we show how to enhance several existing protocols with route optimization and local route recovery capability. So the routing paths can be adjusted on-the-fly while they are still being used for delivering packets and can be patched in minimum wireless bandwidth and delay while route errors occur.     

自组网路由协议综述

自组网路由协议用于监控网络拓扑结构变化,交换路由信息,定位目的节点位置,产生、维护和选择路由,并根据选择的路由转发数据。本文综述了自组网路由协议研究方面的一些最新工作,描述了设计自组网路由协议所面临的问题,并着重对该研究开展以来所提出的各种主要协议进行了对比、分析和分类阐述,为进一步的研究提出了新的课题。     

GMZRP: Geography-aided Multicast Zone Routing Protocol in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

This paper presents the design and evaluation of a highly efficient on-demand multicast routing protocol for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). The protocol, called Geography-aided Multicast Zone Routing Protocol (GMZRP), eliminates as much as possible duplicate route queries by using a simple yet effective strategy for propagating the multicast route request (MRREQ) packets. GMZRP is the first hybrid multicast protocol taking the advantages of both topological routing and geographical routing. It partitions the network coverage area into small zones and guarantees that each geographic zone is queried only once. GMZRP maintains a multicast forwarding tree at two levels of granularities, i.e., the zone granularity and the node granularity. By doing this, it can easily handle route breakage since the zone level information can help recover the link failure at the node level. The results of the performance evaluation of GMZRP using simulation show that, comparing with the well-known multicast protocol ODMRP (On-Demand Multicast Routing Protocol), GMZRP has much lower protocol overhead in terms of query packets and, meanwhile, achieves competing packet delivery ratio and shorter delivery latency.