Multipath routing in the presence of frequent topological changes

In this article we propose a framework for multipath routing in mobile ad hoc networks and provide its analytical evaluation. The instability of the topology (e.g., failure of links) in these types of networks, due to nodal mobility and changes in wireless propagation conditions, makes transmission of time-sensitive information a challenging problem. To combat this inherent unreliability of these networks, we propose a routing scheme that uses multiple paths simultaneously by splitting the information among the multitude of paths, to increase the probability that the essential portion of the information is received at the destination without incurring excessive delay. Our scheme works by adding some overhead to each packet, which is calculated as a linear function of the original packet bits. The resulting packet (information and overhead) is fragmented into smaller blocks and distributed over the available paths. Our goal is, given the failure probabilities of the paths, to find the optimal way to fragment and then distribute the blocks to the paths so that the probability of reconstructing the original information at the destination is maximized. Our algorithm has low time complexity, which is crucial since the path failure characteristics vary with time and the optimal block distribution has to be recalculated in real time     

On-demand loop-free routing with link vectors

We present the on-demand link vector (OLIVE) protocol, a routing protocol for ad hoc networks based on link-state information that is free of routing loops and supports destination-based packet forwarding. Routers exchange routing information reactively for each destination in the form of complete paths, and each node creates a labeled source graph based on the paths advertised by its neighbors. A node originates a broadcast route request (RREQ) to obtain a route for a destination for which a complete path does not exist in its source graph. When the original path breaks, a node can select an alternative path based on information reported by neighbors, and a node can send a unicast RREQ to verify that the route is still active. A node that cannot find any alternate path to a destination sends route errors reliably to those neighbors that were using it as next hop to the destination. Using simulation experiments in ns2, OLIVE is shown to outperform dynamic source routing, ad hoc on-demand distance vector, optimized link-state routing protocol, and topology broadcast based on reverse-path forwarding, in terms of control overhead, throughput, and average network delay, while maintaining loop-free routing with no need for source routes.     

Single-path routing for life time maximization in multi-hop wireless networks

Energy-aware routing is important in multi-hop wireless networks that are powered by battery, e.g., wireless sensor networks. To maximize the network survivability, the energy efficiency of paths must be taken into account for route selection. Simple heuristics such as choosing paths with minimal energy consumption are ineffective, because the energy of the nodes on such paths may deplete quickly. The issue is particularly serious for the networks with regular traffic pattern as in monitoring sensor applications. Existing solutions to this issue typically adopt the multi-path routing approach, in which multiple paths are set up between source and destination and one (or all) of the paths is (are) used at a certain moment. However, this approach involves high overhead for establishment and management of multiple paths. In this paper, we present a static single-path routing scheme which uses one energy-efficient path for each communicating peer throughout the network lifetime, eliminating the overhead of multi-path routing. It is theoretically proved that our routing scheme achieves a constant factor approximate of the optimal solution. We compare the performance of the proposed scheme with that of multi-path routing via simulations. Despite the use of single static path, the proposed scheme outperforms existing multi-path routing schemes and produces performance close to the optimal multi-path solution, particularly in heavily loaded networks and multiple-gateway networks.     

Analysis of multipath routing, part 2: mitigation of the effects of frequently changing network topologies

In this paper, we extend the analysis of multipath routing presented in our previous work, so that the basic restrictions on the evaluation and optimization of that scheme can be dropped (e.g., disjoint paths and identical paths in terms of failure probability). In that work, we employed diversity coding in order to provide increased protection against frequent route failures by splitting data packets and distributing them over multiple disjoint paths. Motivated by the high increase in the packet delivery ratio, we study the increase we can achieve through the usage of multiple paths in the general case, where the paths are not necessarily independent and their failure probabilities vary. For this reason, a function that measures the probability of successful transmission is derived as a tight approximation of the evaluation function P/sub succ/. Given the failure probabilities of the available paths and their correlation, we are able to find in polynomial time the set of paths that maximizes the probability of reconstructing the original information at the destination.     

An Extended Dynamic Source Routing Scheme in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks

In this paper we consider a multipath extension to the dynamic source routing (DSR) protocol proposed by Johnson and Maltz, an on-demand routing protocol for ad hoc wireless networks. This extension keeps two node-disjoint paths between the source and destination of a routing process without introducing extra overhead. Unlike other multipath extensions where node-disjoint paths are selected at the destination or at the reply phase, our approach generates two node-disjoint paths during the query phase of the route discovery process by restricting the way the query packet is flooded. Several optimization options are also considered. Simulation is conducted to determine the success rate of finding node-disjoint paths.     

RBR: a region-based routing protocol for mobile nodes in hybrid ad hoc networks

In hybrid ad hoc networks, mobile nodes can communicate not only with each other in a self-organizing manner, but also with nodes on wired networks for extensive information retrieval and dissemination. In this article we consider efficient routing operations between any two nodes in an ad hoc network that is linked to wired networks by an access point. To build routes with low routing overhead efficiently, we develop a new routing scheme of region-based routing (RBR), which utilizes hop counts between mobile nodes and the access point to localize a route discovery within a limited topological region. Limiting the region of route discovery results in fewer routing messages and therefore reduces routing overhead. Simulation results show that the RBR scheme greatly reduces routing overhead while preserving a high rate of success for route discovery to the destination     

Energy-Efficient Routing for Frequency-Hop Wireless Networks

The use of adaptive-transmission protocols in wireless, store-and-forward, packet communication networks may result in large differences in the energy requirements of the alternative paths that are available to the routing protocol. Routing metrics can provide quantitative measures of the quality and energy efficiency of the paths from the source to the destination. Such measures are required if the routing protocol is to take advantage of the potential energy savings that are made possible by an adaptive-transmission protocol. An energy-efficient protocol suite for routing and adaptive transmission in frequency-hop wireless networks is described and evaluated, several routing metrics are compared, and tradeoffs among energy efficiency, delay, and packet success probability are investigated.     

A location-based routing method for 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. However, location-based routing is difficult when there are holes in the network topology and nodes are mobile or frequently disconnected to save battery. Terminode routing, presented here, addresses these issues. It uses a combination of location-based routing (terminode remote routing, TRR), used when the destination is far, and link state-routing (terminode local routing, TLR), used when the destination is close. TRR uses anchored paths, a list of geographic points (not nodes) used as loose source routing information. Anchored paths are discovered and managed by sources, using one of two low overhead protocols: friend assisted path discovery and geographical map-based path discovery. Our simulation results show that terminode routing performs well in networks of various sizes. In smaller networks; the performance is comparable to MANET routing protocols. In larger networks that are not uniformly populated with nodes, terminode routing outperforms, existing location-based or MANET routing protocols.     

A reinforcement learning ticket-based probing path discovery scheme for MANETs

In this paper, a path discovery scheme which supports QoS routing in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) in the presence of imprecise information is investigated. The aim is to increase the probability of success in finding feasible paths and reduce average path cost of a previously proposed ticket based probing (TBP) path discovery scheme. The proposed scheme integrates the original TBP scheme with a reinforcement learning method called the on-policy first-visit Monte Carlo (ONMC) method. We investigate the performance of the ONMC method in the presence of imprecise information. Our numerical study shows that, in respect to a flooding based algorithm, message overhead reduction can be achieved with marginal difference in the path search ability and additional computational and storage requirements. When the average message overhead of the ONMC method is reduced to the same order of magnitude of the original TBP, the ONMC method gains an improvement of 28% in success ratio and 7% reduction in the average path cost over the original TBP.     

Proposal for st-Routing Protocol

A routing protocol chooses one of the several paths (routes) from a source node to a destination node in the computer network, to send a packet of information. In this paper, we propose a new routing protocol, which we call st-routing protocol, based on st-numbering of a graph. The protocol fits well in noisy environments where robustness of routing using alternative paths is a major issue. The proposed routing protocol provides a systematic way to retry alternative paths without generating any duplicate packets. The protocol works for only those networks that can be represented by biconnected graphs.     

Ring Mesh Based Multicast Routing Scheme in MANET Using Bandwidth Delay Product

Quality of Service (QoS) support in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) for group communication necessitates design of reliable networks with multicast support mechanisms. Reliable network connectivity among MANET nodes require high quality links that have much less packet drops and reliable nodes considering node mobility and failures. Reliability of a network can be enhanced by designing an end-to-end network pipe that satisfies the required QoS in terms of in-flight packets from source to a destination as well as by using a path comprising of reliable nodes. In-flight packets may be computed by using bandwidth delay product (BDP) of a network pipe. To meet the QoS requirements of an application, BDP should be maintained stable irrespective of vibrant network conditions. In this paper, we propose a BDP based multicast routing scheme in MANET using reliable ring mesh backbone. The scheme operates in the following sequence. (1) Reliable node pairs are computed based on mobility, remaining battery power and differential signal strength. The node pairs also compute BDP between them. BDP of a reliability pair is assessed using available bandwidth and delay experienced by a packet between them. (2) Backbone ring mesh is constructed using reliable pair nodes and convex hull algorithm. Reliable ring mesh is constructed at an arbitrary distance from the centroid of the MANET area. (3) Multicast paths are found by discovering a path from source to each destination of the group with concatenated set of reliability pairs that satisfy the BDP requirement. (4) The ring mesh maintains high BDP on ring links and can recover in case of node mobility and failures. Results show that there is an improvement in terms of end-to-end delay, packet delivery ratio, control overhead, memory overhead and application rejection ratio as compared to the Enhanced On Demand Multicast Routing Protocol.     

Queue‐based multiple path load balancing routing protocol for MANETs

Congestion in the network is the main cause for packet drop and increased end‐to‐end transmission delay of packet between source and destination nodes. Congestion occurs because of the simultaneous contention for network resources. It is very important to efficiently utilize the available resources so that a load can be distributed efficiently throughout the network. Otherwise, the resources of heavily loaded nodes may be depleted very soon, which ultimately affects network performances. In this paper, we have proposed a new routing protocol named queue‐based multiple path load balancing routing protocol. This protocol discovers several node‐disjoint paths from source to destination nodes. It also finds minimum queue length with respect to individual paths, sorts the node‐disjoint paths based on queue length, and distributes the packets through these paths based on the minimum queue length. Simulation results show that the proposed routing protocol distributes the load efficiently and achieves better network performances in terms of packet delivery ratio, end‐to‐end delay, and routing overhead. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

车载Ad hoc网络基于转发能力预测的路由策略

在车载Ad hoc网络中,节点的高速移动导致全网拓扑的频繁变化,以街道为单位的路由策略更加高效。传统的研究中使用街道的静态信息或者瞬时的动态信息选择路由路径。前者忽略了车辆节点的动态分布,后者中,精确的全局动态信息获取困难且开销巨大。文章提出街道转发能力来评估街道的路由特性,并预测其持续时间。基于街道转发能力的预测,本文设计了结合静态长度和动态信息的路由策略。仿真结果表明,本策略可以显著提高路由性能。     

Reliable packet transmissions in multipath routed wireless networks

We study the problem of using path diversification to provide low probability of packet loss (PPL) in wireless networks. Path diversification uses erasure codes and multiple paths in the network to transmit packets. The source uses Forward Error Correction (FEC) to encode each packet into multiple fragments and transmits the fragments to the destination using multiple disjoint paths. The source uses a load balancing algorithm to determine how many fragments should be transmitted on each path. The destination can reconstruct the packet if it receives a number of fragments equal to or higher than the number of fragments in the original packet. We study the load balancing algorithm in two general cases. In the first case, we assume that no knowledge of the performance along the paths is available at the source. In such a case, the source decomposes traffic uniformly among the paths; we call this case blind load balancing. We show that for low PPL, blind load balancing outperforms single-path transmission. In the second case, we assume that a feedback mechanism periodically provides the source with information about the performance along each path. With that information, the source can optimally distribute the fragments. We show how to distribute the fragments for minimized PPL, and maximized efficiency given a bound on PPL. We evaluate the performance of the scheme through numerical simulations.     

End-to-End Link Reliable Energy Efficient Multipath Routing for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Among the many multipath routing protocols, the AOMDV is widely used in highly dynamic ad hoc networks because of its generic feature. Since the communicating nodes in AOMDV are prone to link failures and route breaks due to the selection of multiple routes between any source and destination pair based on minimal hop count which does not ensure end-to-end reliable data transmission. To overcome such problems, we propose a novel node disjoint multipath routing protocol called End-to-End Link Reliable Energy Efficient Multipath Routing (E2E-LREEMR) protocol by extending AOMDV. The E2E-LREEMR finds multiple link reliable energy efficient paths between any source and destination pair for data transmission using two metrics such as Path-Link Quality Estimator and Path-Node Energy Estimator. We evaluate the performance of E2E-LREEMR protocol using NS 2.34 with varying network flows under random way-point mobility model and compare it with AOMDV routing protocol in terms of Quality of Service metrics. When there is a hike in network flows, the E2E-LREEMR reduces 30.43 % of average end-to-end delay, 29.44 % of routing overhead, 32.65 % of packet loss ratio, 18.79 % of normalized routing overhead and 12.87 % of energy consumption. It also increases rather 10.26 % of packet delivery ratio and 6.96 % of throughput than AOMDV routing protocol.     

On-demand SIR and bandwidth-guaranteed routing with transmit power assignment in ad hoc mobile networks

In this paper, we propose a novel on-demand quality-of-service (QoS) routing protocol, SBR [signal-to-interference (SIR) and bandwidth routing], which explicitly fulfills both SIR and bandwidth requirements from different multimedia users in ad hoc mobile networks. With SBR, bandwidth reservation is made by allocating time slots and SIR reservation is ensured by assigning adequate powers at the intermediate nodes between a source and a destination. The power-assignment method used in SBR supports finding routes that satisfy the SIR requirements as well as reduces the level of prevailing interference that necessarily occurs in multiple-access wireless networks. SBR also has a new backup capability of establishing multiple paths, even for a single connection, when the route search cannot find a single path that supports the QoS requirements, which contributes to reducing the probability of call denials in constructing the route due to a lack of suitable paths. Extensive simulations show that SBR significantly reduces the ratio of unsuccessful calls with modest routing overhead.     

机会网络中一种低缓存占用的Epidemic 路由算法

由于机会网络中节点的缓存空间有限,容易导致数据分组丢失和时延增加。针对部分数据分组已经到达目的节点,但是该类分组仍在网络中其它节点存储、传输问题,提出一种低缓存占用的Epidemic路由算法(RBER)。该算法通过SV运算进行节点缓存清理,从而避免这类冗余数据分组对缓存的占用。理论分析和仿真结果表明,该机制能够降低网络开销、数据分组的发送和缓存占用。     

DDOR: Destination discovery oriented routing in?highway/freeway VANETs+

The emerging adoption of wireless communications on surface transportation systems has generated extensive interest among researchers over the last several years. Innovative inter-vehicular communications and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications achieve road traffic safety, ecstatic driving and delightful travelling experiences. Multi-hop information dissemination in vehicular ad hoc networks is challenged by high mobility and frequent disconnections of wireless nodes. This paper presents a new routing scheme for Highway/Freeway VANETs, which consists of a unicast destination discovery process, a robust forward node selection mechanism and a positional hello mechanism. In this paper, no dedicated path is framed in order to prevent frequent path maintenance. In addition, the avoidance of flooding and location services substantially reduces the control overhead. Positional hello scheme ensures connectivity and diminishes control overhead concurrently. Simulation results signify the benefits of the proposed routing strategy (i.e. DDOR) has higher packet delivery ratio, reduced routing overhead and shorter delay compared with previous works.     

Hop count optimal position-based packet routing algorithms for ad hoc wireless networks with a realistic physical Layer

Existing routing and broadcasting protocols for ad hoc networks assume an ideal physical layer model. We apply the log-normal shadow fading model to represent a realistic physical layer and use the probability p(x) for receiving a packet successfully as a function of distance x between two nodes. We define the transmission radius R as the distance at which p(R)=0.5. We propose a medium access control layer protocol, where receiver node acknowledges packet to sender node u times, where u*p(x)/spl ap/1. We derived an approximation for p(x) to reduce computation time. It can be used as the weight in the optimal shortest hop count routing scheme. We then study the optimal packet forwarding distance to minimize the hop count, and show that it is approximately 0.73R (for power attenuation degree 2). A hop count optimal, greedy, localized routing algorithm [referred as ideal hop count routing (IHCR)] for ad hoc wireless networks is then presented. We present another algorithm called expected progress routing with acknowledgment (referred as aEPR) for ad hoc wireless networks. Two variants of aEPR algorithm, namely, aEPR-1 and aEPR-u are also presented. Next, we propose projection progress scheme, and its two variants, 1-Projection and u-Projection. Iterative versions of aEPR and projection progress attempt to improve their performance. We then propose tR-greedy routing scheme, where packet is forwarded to neighbor closest to destination, among neighbors that are within distance tR. All described schemes are implemented, and their performances are evaluated and compared.     

On the effectiveness of alternative paths in QoS routing

We propose a routing strategy in which connection requests with specific bandwidth demands can be assigned to one of several alternative paths connecting the source to the destination. The primary goal of this multiple‐path approach is to compensate for the inaccuracy of the knowledge available to routing nodes, caused by the limited frequency of link state (LS) information exchanges. We introduce a collection of K‐shortest path routing schemes and investigate their performance under a variety of traffic conditions and network configurations. We subsequently demonstrate that K‐shortest path routing offers a lower blocking probability in all scenarios and more balanced link utilization than other routing methods discussed in the literature. With our approach, it is possible to reduce the frequency of link state exchanges, and the incurred bandwidth overhead, without compromising the overall performance of the network. Based on the proposed routing scheme, we investigate different link state dissemination algorithms, which are aimed at reducing the communication overhead by prioritizing the scope and differentiating the qualitative content of LS update messages. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.