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.     

An Adaptive-Transmission Protocol for Frequency-Hop Wireless Communication Networks

An energy-efficient adaptive-transmission protocol for mobile frequency-hop spread-spectrum wireless communication networks is described and evaluated. The purpose of the protocol is to permit each of the mobile terminals to adjust its transmitter power and code rate to match the characteristics of the time-varying communication links in the network. The proposed adaptive-transmission protocol bases its choice of transmission parameters on a very simple form of side information that is easy to obtain in a FH communication receiver. The performance of the adaptive-transmission protocol is evaluated for networks in which each communication link may have a time-varying propagation loss and intermittent partial-band interference. Our results demonstrate that the adaptive-transmission protocol can improve the utility of a link and reduce energy consumption by adjusting the transmission parameters in response to changes in the side information.     

Multiple-packet forwarding protocols for frequency-hop packet radio networks

Reliable data distribution within multiple-hop spread-spectrum packet radio networks requires high performance from the network protocols. The high variability in quality among the links and the unique characteristics of frequency-hop spread-spectrum signaling impose special requirements for network protocols that are to be employed in frequency-hop packet radio networks. These features can be exploited in the forwarding protocols by allowing multiple packets to be included in each forwarding attempt. The use of multiple-packet transmissions exploits the capture property of frequency-hop signaling, and it reduces the overhead required for acknowledgments. A potential trade-off arises because the use of multiple-packet transmissions increases the throughput, but in some situations it can also increase the delay. Two new transmission protocols that employ multiple-packet transmissions are described, and their performance is evaluated.     

Channel Adaptive Shortest Path Routing for Ad Hoc Networks

1　IntroductionAdhocnetworksareformedwithoutrequiringthepreexistinginfrastructureorcentralizedadminis tration ,incontrasttocellularnetworks.Asidefromtheoriginalmilitaryapplication ,ithasapplicationinpublicsafetyandcommercialareas,butadaptiveprotocolsarerequiredinorderforthemtodoso .Twoimportantcharacteristicsofacommunicationlinkinadhocnetworksareitsunreliabilityanditsvariability .Thelinksinsuchanetworkareunreli ablebecauseoffading ,interference,noise,andper hapsthefailureofthetransmittingorrec…     

Query Localization Techniques for On-Demand Routing Protocols in Ad Hoc Networks

Mobile ad hoc networks are characterized by multi-hop wireless links, absence of any cellular infrastructure, and frequent host mobility. Design of efficient routing protocols in such networks is a challenging issue. A class of routing protocols called on-demand protocols has recently found attention because of their low routing overhead. We propose a technique that can reduce the routing overhead even further. The on-demand protocols depend on query floods to discover routes whenever a new route is needed. Our technique utilizes prior routing histories to localize the query flood to a limited region of the network. Simulation results demonstrate excellent reduction of routing overheads with this mechanism. This also contributes to a reduced level of network congestion and better end-to-end delay performance of data packets.     

无线自组织网络中一种拥塞意识的多径路由算法

提出了无线自组织网络中一种拥塞意识的多径路由算法。该算法在路由发现过程中,综合节点的队列长度和路径跳数来动态确定路由请求消息的转发概率,可以在保证路由请求消息有一定送达率的条件下,降低路由开销;在路径选择和流量分配过程中,综合考虑节点的队列长度和路径质量作为路由度量,发现流量高吞吐量低拥塞路径,并基于该度量值进行流量分配。仿真结果显示,所提出的多径路由算法能有效提高网络性能。     

PARO: Supporting Dynamic Power Controlled Routing in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

This paper introduces PARO, a dynamic power controlled routing scheme that helps to minimize the transmission power needed to forward packets between wireless devices in ad hoc networks. Using PARO, one or more intermediate nodes called redirectors elects to forward packets on behalf of source–destination pairs thus reducing the aggregate transmission power consumed by wireless devices. PARO is applicable to a number of networking environments including wireless sensor networks, home networks and mobile ad hoc networks. In this paper, we present the detailed design of PARO and evaluate the protocol using simulation and experimentation. We show through simulation that PARO is capable of outperforming traditional broadcast-based routing protocols (e.g., MANET routing protocols) due to its energy conserving point-to-point on-demand design. We discuss our experiences from an implementation of the protocol in an experimental wireless testbed using off-the-shelf radio technology. We also evaluate the impact of dynamic power controlled routing on traditional network performance metrics such as end-to-end delay and throughput.     

An On-Demand Routing Protocol with Backtracking for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is characterized by multi-hop wireless links and frequent node mobility. Communication between non-neighboring nodes requires a multi-hop routing protocol to establish a route. But, the route often breaks due to mobility. The source must rediscover a new route for delivering the data packets. This wastes the resources that are limited in MANET. In this paper, a new on-demand routing protocol is proposed, named on-demand routing protocol with backtracking (ORB), for multi-hop mobile ad hoc networks. We use the multiple routes and cache data technique to reduce the rediscovery times and overhead. After executing the route discovery phase, we find out a set of nodes, named checkpoint, which has the multiple routes to the destination. When a checkpoint node receives a data packet, it caches this data packet in its buffer within a specific time period. When a node detects a broken route during the data packets delivery or receives an error packet, it will either recover the broken route or reply the error packet to the source. If a node can not forward the data packet to the next node, it replies an error packet to the source. This packet is backtracking to search a checkpoint to redeliver the data packet to the destination along other alternate routes. The main advantage of ORB is to reduce the flooding search times, maybe just delay and cost while a route has broken. The experimental results show that the proposed scheme can increase the performance of delivery but reduce the overhead efficiently comparing with that of AODV based routing protocols. Hua-Wen Tsai received the B.S. degree in Information Management from Chang Jung Christian University, Taiwan, in June 1998 and the M.B.A. degree in Business and Operations Management from Chang Jung Christian University, Taiwan, in June 2001. Since September 2001, he has been working towards the Ph.D. degree and currently is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. His research interests include wireless communication, ad hoc networks, and sensor networks. Tzung-Shi Chen received the B.S. degree in Computer Science and Information Engineering from Tamkang University, Taiwan, in June 1989 and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Information Engineering from National Central University, Taiwan, in June 1994. He joined the faculty of the Department of Information Management, Chung Jung University, Tainan, Taiwan, as an Associate Professor in June 1996. Since November 2002, he has become a Full Professor at the Department of Information Management, Chung Jung University, Tainan, Taiwan. He was a visiting scholar at the Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, from June to September 2001. He was the chairman of the Department of Information Management at Chung Jung University from August 2000 to July 2003. Since August 2004, he has become a Full Professor at the Department of Information and Learning Technology, National University of Tainan, Tainan, Taiwan. Currently, he is the chairman of the Department of Information and Learning Technology, National University of Tainan. He co-received the best paper award of 2001 IEEE ICOIN-15. His current research interests include mobile computing and wireless networks, mobile learning, data mining, and pervasive computing. Dr. Chen is a member of the IEEE Computer Society. Chih-Ping Chu received the B.S. degree in agricultural chemistry from National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan, the M.S. degree in computer science from the University of California, Riverside, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from Louisiana State University. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering of National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. His current research interests include parallel computing, parallel processing, component-based software development, and internet computing.     

Checkerboard-Like Routing Protocol for Ad Hoc Mobile Wireless Networks

The main purposes of this article are to relieve broadcast problem, to immunize to some prerequisites, and to reduce the number of transmitted control packets. Broadcasting control packets network-wide is the most direct and common method for finding the required destination node in ad hoc mobile wireless networks; however, this causes a lot of waste of wireless bandwidth. To remedy the problem, routing protocols demanding some prerequisites are proposed; nonetheless, hardly can they be used if these prerequisites are missed or become stale. To efficiently reduce the number of transmitted control packets, our routing protocol partitions the network into interlaced gray districts and white districts by the aid of GPS and inhibits an intermediate node residing in a white district from re-transmitting the received control packets. However, a mobile node residing in a gray district is responsible for re-transmitting them till they reach the destination node. Our routing protocol does not demand any prerequisite except the use of GPS. Each mobile node can always obtain its own location information; furthermore, the information may neither be missed nor become stale. Our routing protocol is easy to be implemented, saves precious wireless bandwidth, and reduces almost half a number of control packets as compared with pure flooding routing protocols.Ying-Kwei Ho received the B.S. degree and M.S. degree in applied mathematics and in electrical engineering from the Chung-Cheng Institute of Technology in 1987 and 1993 respectively and the Ph.D. degree in computer engineering and science from the Yuan-Ze University, Taiwan, R.O.C. He joined the Army of Taiwan, R.O.C. in 1987 and worked as a software engineer. From 1993 to 1997, he was an instructor in the War Game Center of Armed Forces University, Taiwan, R.O.C. He is currently an assistant professor of the Department of Computer Science at Chung-Cheng Institute of Technology. His research interests include mobile computing, wireless network performance simulation and evaluation, and modeling and simulation.Ru-Sheng Liu received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan, in 1972 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, in 1981 and1985, respectively. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Computer Engineering and Science at Yuan-Ze University, Chungli, Taiwan. His research interests are in the areas of mobile computing, internet technology, and computer algorithms.     

无线adhoc网络中的多径源路由

本文针对无线ad hoc网络提出了一种基于DSR(动态源路由)的路由算法,多径源路由(MSR).MSR对DSR中的路由搜索和路由维护机制进行了扩展,用来解决多径路由问题.本文还提出,在多条路径之间基于测量的RTT进行负载分配.仿真结果表明,MSR在只增加少量网络开销的情况下,提高了TCP和UDP的投递率,降低了丢包率,并减少了端到端之间的延迟以及队列长度,从而有效地减少了网络拥塞.     

无线多媒体传感器网络路由协议研究

传统的无线传感器网络(Wireless Sensor Networks,WSNs)路由协议不能很好地适应多媒体数据流的传输.近来,提出了一些无线多媒体传感器网络(Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks,WMSNs)路由协议.本文首先讲述了WMSNs服务质量保障路由问题及其面临的挑战,从五...     

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。     

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.     

无线多媒体传感器网络QoS区分 服务路由机制

 无线多媒体传感器网络中多种类型数据并存,服务质量需求各异,因此如何提供服务质量保障机制是无线多媒体传感器网络研究领域的重点问题.本文提出了一种基于角度的区分服务路由算法,在该算法中,网络节点将各自的邻居节点按其偏转角度进行分类,为不同需求的数据流选择不同的转发区域,并结合邻居节点的地理位置、单跳通信负载、剩余能量等信息完成各数据流的区分路由.仿真结果表明,该算法在多媒体数据流传输的延迟、抖动、丢包率以及能耗等性能上均要优于已有算法.     

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.     

VANETs路由协议的研究进展

车辆自组织网络是传统自组织网络派生出的一个分支,其与应用场景高度相关.传统路由协议不能有效的适用于车辆自组织网络,因此,针对车辆自组织网络提出了许多新的路由协议.首先在总结车辆自组织网络的特性后,分别介绍了单播路由、广播路由和地域性多播路由的概念,然后着重分析和总结了近年来具有代表性的路由协议的核心路由机制及其优缺点,...     

多媒体异构Mesh网络体系设计及跨层QoS路由算法研究

 针对无线Mesh网络的异构特性和多媒体业务的QoS要求,研究了一种跨域、跨层、跨节点的无线Mesh网络QoS自适应体系架构.在此基础上,利用双层规划数学模型描述之,并利用改进的蚁群算法来求解该双层规划模型,从而提出了基于双层规划模型的蚁群优化路由算法.仿真结果表明双层规划数学模型充分地考虑并优化了路径的各QoS指标,提出的蚁群优化路由算法能够很好地收敛于双层规划模型的最优解,且具有复杂度低、收敛速度快的特点.     

Performance Evaluation of Routing Protocols for Ad Hoc Wireless Networks

A mobile ad hoc network is a collection of autonomous mobile nodes that communicate with each other over wireless links. Such networks are expected to play an increasingly important role in future civilian and military settings, being useful for providing communication support where no fixed infrastructure exists or the deployment of a fixed infrastructure is not economically profitable and movement of communicating parties is possible. However, since there is no stationary infrastructure such as base stations, mobile hosts need to operate as routers in order to maintain the information about the network connectivity. Therefore, a number of routing protocols have been proposed for ad hoc wireless networks. In this paper, we study and compare the performance of the following routing protocols AODV, PAODV (preemptive AODV), CBRP, DSR, and DSDV. A variety of workload and scenarios, as characterized by mobility, load and size of the ad hoc network were simulated. Our results indicate that despite its improvement in reducing route request packets, CBRP has a higher overhead than DSR because of its periodic hello messages while AODV's end-to-end packet delay is the shortest when compared to DSR and CBRP. PAODV has shown little improvements over AODV.     

无线Mesh网络跨层路由技术研究

无线Mesh网络(WMN:wireless mesh networks)作为一种新型的无线网络,成为近几年研究的热点。由于无线信道不稳定等特性,如何设计WMN的路由协议成为决定其性能的关键因素之一。近几年来的研究表明,通过跨层设计的方式综合其他层的重要参数来实现路由选择,能够很好地解决这一难题。介绍了几种先进的跨层路由设计方案,总结了现有的跨层路由协议的优缺点,并对如何设计并实现跨层路由协议进行了分析和总结。     

On-Demand Multicast Routing Protocol in Multihop Wireless Mobile Networks

An ad hoc network is a dynamically reconfigurable wireless network with no fixed infrastructure or central administration. Each host is mobile and must act as a router. Routing and multicasting protocols in ad hoc networks are faced with the challenge of delivering data to destinations through multihop routes in the presence of node movements and topology changes. This paper presents the On-Demand Multicast Routing Protocol (ODMRP) for wireless mobile ad hoc networks. ODMRP is a mesh-based, rather than a conventional tree-based, multicast scheme and uses a forwarding group concept; only a subset of nodes forwards the multicast packets via scoped flooding. It applies on-demand procedures to dynamically build routes and maintain multicast group membership. ODMRP is well suited for ad hoc wireless networks with mobile hosts where bandwidth is limited, topology changes frequently, and power is constrained. We evaluate ODMRP performance with other multicast protocols proposed for ad hoc networks via extensive and detailed simulation.