QoS routing with traffic distribution in mobile ad hoc networks

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) follow a unique organizational and behavioral logic. MANETs’ characteristics such as their dynamic topology coupled with the characteristics of the wireless communication medium make Quality of Service provisioning a difficult challenge. This paper presents a new approach based on a mobile routing backbone for supporting Quality of Service (QoS) in MANETs. In real-life MANETs, nodes will possess different communication capabilities and processing characteristics. Hence, we aim to identify those nodes whose capabilities and characteristics will enable them to take part in the mobile routing backbone and efficiently participate in the routing process. Moreover, the route discovery mechanism we developed for the mobile routing backbone dynamically distributes traffic within the network according to current network traffic levels and nodes’ processing loads. Simulation results show that our solution improves network throughput and packet delivery ratio by directing traffic through lowly congested regions of the network that are rich in resources. Moreover, our protocol incurs lower communication overheads than AODV (ad hoc on-demand distance vector routing protocol) when searching for routes in the network.     

基于改进萤火虫群优化的无线自组网路由算法

针对无线自组网络拓扑结构多变、网络生存时间受限及数据包分组传输效率低下等问题,借鉴萤火虫群优化算法,提出了一种改进萤火虫群优化的无线自组网络路由算法.路由算法将萤火虫优化算法中的荧光素强度更新与无线自组网络中的节点移动速度、拥塞程度、节点剩余能量、节点间距离等因素进行相互映射,同时改进萤火虫群优化算法中的搜索萤火虫、驻留萤火虫及回溯萤火虫用于完成无线自组网络中路由协议的路由发现、路由选择及路由维护等过程,整个协议无须传送大量的控制分组,即可实现无线自组网络的稳定传输.仿真实验结果表明,与AODV及基于蚁群优化的路由算法AntRouting协议相比,本文所提出的路由算法在端到端延时、分组数据传输率及网络生存时间上均有良好的性能.     

基于热点簇的Ad hoc网络拥塞回避算法

Adhoc网络由于其节点具有随机移动性和分布密度不均匀的特征,容易引起网络局部的拥塞,但目前常用的Adhoc网络路由算法大多不具有拥塞响应机制。基于簇的网络结构易于实现对网络及节点的管理,论文定义热点簇,并提出基于热点簇的拥塞回避算法(CMHA),能实现对拥塞的快速响应,达到防止拥塞加剧的目的。算法利用多个节点的状态参数(如MAC延迟,或者缓冲区占有量)判断拥塞,并快速找到一条新的路径避开拥塞区域以降低拥塞区域负载。仿真结果表明此算法满足Adhoc网络中分级结构的要求,明显改善端到端的投递率,节省了能量,保证了服务质量。     

多信道无线Mesh网络的路由协议

针对单径路由协议不能充分利用多信道无线Mesh网络的信道资源的问题,提出了一种基于拥塞控制的并行多径路由协议PMRP。该协议将一个数据流分配到多条路径同时传输,当所有路径都发生中断时,才重新寻找路由;并采取相应的拥塞感知技术,避免拥塞节点再转发新的数据流。仿真结果证明：与无线自组网按需平面距离矢量路由协议（AODV）协议相比,PMRP在网络负载较大时,能有效地减小端到端延迟,提高数据包的成功投递率,增加网络的整体吞吐量。     

双向路径重选的自组网负载均衡路由协议

基于跨层负载感知和双向路径重选的自纽网负载均衡路由协议（CLBLR）在路由发现阶段和路由维护阶段，将整个路径中各节点MAC层的总平均估计时延和路径总业务流负载结合起来，共同作为路由选择和路由调整的重要依据，通过双向路径重选方法实现最优路径选择和网络业务流的均衡分布和均衡传输．协议通过禁止中间节点对路由请求进行应答和阻止不必要的路由请求分组，经由重负载中间节点转发，以保证路由发现时能够利用最新负载信息，并避免了节点在重负载情况下成为新建路由的中间节点，使协议具有一定的拥塞控制功能，以间接的方式实现了请求接纳控制．上述措施使分组传输路由很好地避免了拥塞节点，减少了网络瓶颈对网络性能的影响．仿真表明，CLBLR在分组丢失率、平均端到端时延和路由附加开销等方面具有良好性能，其优良的分布式控制特征能适应自组网的动态环境．     

The role of congestion in probabilistic broadcasting for ubiquitous wireless multi-hop networks through mediation analysis

Broadcast schemes play an important role in the performance of mobile ad hoc networks, which are a clear example of ubiquitous wireless multi-hop networks where nodes collaborate in a distributed way. They are widely used as a dissemination mechanism and as a part of the discovery phase of routing protocols. The simple flooding algorithm is the usual mechanism employed in mobile ad hoc networks, but its inefficiency has been demonstrated in congested scenarios due to the high number of collisions and contentions. However, these problems can be partially alleviated by using a probabilistic broadcast approach in which every node forwards the incoming packets according to a certain forwarding probability. In this paper, we use a simple probabilistic broadcast protocol to evaluate the effects of congestion on the performance of broadcasting in ad hoc networks through a mediation analysis. We hypothesize that the congestion mediates in the relationship between the forwarding probability (independent variable) and the output metric (dependent variable). We consider several output metrics according to the application of the broadcasting protocol such as reachability, broadcasting delay, packet delivery fraction and end to end delay. The simulation results show the existence of the mediating effects and how such effects may be counterbalanced depending on the target use of the probabilistic broadcast scheme.     

A scalable multimedia QoS architecture for ad hoc networks

Communication demands have grown from separate data and voice to integrated multimedia, paving the way to converging fixed, mobile and IP networks. Supporting Multimedia is a challenging task for wireless ad hoc network designers. Multimedia forms high data rate traffic with stringent Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. Wireless ad hoc networks are characterized by frequent topology changes, unreliable wireless channel, network congestion and resource contention. Providing scalable QoS is the most important challenge for multimedia delivery over ad hoc networks. We introduce here a provisioning and routing architecture for ad hoc networks which scales well while provisioning QoS. The proposed architecture is analysed using a mix of HTTP, voice and video streaming applications over 54 Mbps 802.11 g-based ad hoc networks. The architecture is simulated and compared to well-known routing protocols using the OPNET Modeller. The results show that our architecture scales well with increase in the network size, and outperforms well-known routing protocols.     

自组网中一种基于跨层负载感知的按需负载均衡路由

本文提出了一种新的基于跨层负载感知的自组网负载均衡路由协议（CLLOR）。CLLOR在路由发现阶段和路由维护阶段将整个路径中各节点MAC层的总平均估计时延和路径总业务流负载结合起来共同作为路由选择和路由调整的重要依据,以实现网络业务流的均衡分布和均衡传输。协议通过禁止中间节点对路由请求进行应答和阻止不必要的路由请求分组经由重负载的中间节点转发,以保证路由发现时能够利用最新的负载信息,并避免了节点在重负载情况下成为新建路由的中间节点,使得协议具有一定的拥塞控制功能,以间接的方式实现了请求接纳控制。通过上述措施,可以很好地避免网络中出现拥塞节点,减少了网络瓶颈对网络性能的影响。仿真表明,CLLOR在分组丢失率、平均端到端时延和路由附加开销等方面具有良好的性能,其优良的分布式控制特征能适应自组网的动态环境。     

基于改进AOMDV路由协议的WSNs拥塞控制和能耗均衡策略

无线传感器网络WSNs中数据流的突发、节点能量有限和多对一数据传输等特性导致其很容易发生网络拥塞和节点能量的非均衡消耗,而采用多路径方式进行数据传输,不仅可以缓解网络拥塞,而且也能达到网络能量均衡消耗的目的。AOMDV协议是一种面向Ad-Hoc网络的反应式多路由协议,首先提出了一种改进的AOMDV协议—I_AOMDV协议,在路由发现阶段不再使用发生拥塞和低能量的节点,而在路由维护阶段则仅使用HELLO信息交换邻居节点的"剩余能量"和"队列长度",同时在路径列表中添加了"拥塞恢复时间"和"能量剩余标志位",从而使I_AOMDV协议更适应于静态WSNs的数据传输。基于I_AOMDV协议,进一步提出了新的网络拥塞控制和能耗均衡策略,其中,拥塞控制策略采用新的拥塞检测方案,并为发生拥塞的最短路径设置了"拥塞恢复时间";而能耗均衡策略则通过为节点的每条路径设置"能量剩余标志位"来解决能量的非均衡消耗问题。仿真实验结果表明,基于I_AOMDV的拥塞控制和能耗均衡策略,可以减少路由协议的开销,有效降低数据丢包率和节点剩余能量的差异性。     

A simple, least-time, and energy-efficient routing protocol with one-level data aggregation for wireless sensor networks

The area of wireless sensor networks (WSN) is currently attractive in the research community area due to its applications in diverse fields such as defense security, civilian applications and medical research. Routing is a serious issue in WSN due to the use of computationally-constrained and resource-constrained micro-sensors. These constraints prohibit the deployment of traditional routing protocols designed for other ad hoc wireless networks. Any routing protocol designed for use in WSN should be reliable, energy-efficient and should increase the lifetime of the network. We propose a simple, least-time, energy-efficient routing protocol with one-level data aggregation that ensures increased life time for the network. The proposed protocol was compared with popular ad hoc and sensor network routing protocols, viz., AODV ( [35] and [12]), DSR (Johnson et al., 2001), DSDV (Perkins and Bhagwat, 1994), DD (Intanagonwiwat et al., 2000) and MCF (Ye et al., 2001). It was observed that the proposed protocol outperformed them in throughput, latency, average energy consumption and average network lifetime. The proposed protocol uses absolute time and node energy as the criteria for routing, this ensures reliability and congestion avoidance.     

Investigating the performance of TCP in mobile ad hoc networks

Mobile ad hoc networks have several inherent characteristics (e.g. dynamic topology, time-varying and bandwidth constrained wireless channels, multi-hop routing, and distributed control and management). The goal of this work is to investigate the impact of these characteristics on the performance of TCP. First, we investigate throughput performance of TCP as a function of path length (i.e. multiple wireless hops), node mobility, and traffic intensity. Next, we examine the ‘fairness’ of the ad hoc network with regard to equal sharing of network bandwidth among multiple TCP flows. Third, we evaluate the impact of two on-demand routing protocols (i.e. AODV and DSR) on the throughput of TCP. Finally, a factorial design experiment is conducted to quantify the effects and interactions of three factors, which influence the throughput of TCP. These factors include routing, node speed, and node pause time. Two key results were observed. Results show that traffic intensity (e.g. number of concurrent flows) is significantly affects TCP throughput, suggesting the need for congestion control, scheduling and traffic management schemes. Second, source routing achieves higher throughputs while also generating significantly less routing overhead than AODV. Results also show that in some instances, the fairness of the network is very uneven among concurrent TCP flows, resulting in several sending stations achieving very little or no throughput.     

高能量节点驱动的按需距离矢量路由协议

无线自组织网络中的按需距离矢量路由协议(AODV)没有考虑到能量消耗的均衡性和网络生命期的问题。针对AODV的这一缺点,提出了一种高能量节点驱动的AODV协议(HN-AODV)。此协议将高能量节点驱动的策略应用于按需路由发现过程,尽量选择能量较高的节点来承担转发任务,以此来平衡网络能耗。仿真结果显示,HN-AODV在基本不降低数据传输性能的前提下,显著提高了网络生命周期。这种高能量节点驱动的方案同样可以运用在其它类似的反应式路由协议中。     

Dynamic address autoconfiguration in hybrid ad hoc networks

The use of ad hoc networking technologies is emerging as a viable and cost-effective solution to extend the range of traditional wireless local area networks (WLANs). In these networks, mobile client traffic reaches the access points through multi-hop wireless paths that are established by using an ad hoc routing protocol. However, several technical challenges have to be faced in order to construct such an extended WLAN. For instance, traditional autoconfiguration protocols commonly used in infrastructure-based WLANs, such as DHCP or Zeroconf, are not directly applicable in multi-hop wireless networks. To address this problem, in this paper we propose extensions to DHCP to enable the dynamic allocation of globally routable IPv4 addresses to mobile stations in hybrid ad hoc networks, which transparently integrate conventional wired technologies with wireless ad hoc networking technologies. Some of the attractive features of our solution are its ability to cope with node mobility, the introduction of negligible protocol overheads, and the use of legacy DHCP servers. We have implemented a prototype of our scheme, and tested its functionalities considering various topology layouts, network loads and mobility conditions. The experimental results show that our solution ensures short address configuration delays and low protocol overheads.     

A Cross-Layer Approach to Multichannel MAC Protocol Design for Video Streaming Over Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

This paper presents a cross-layer design for a reliable video transmission over wireless ad hoc networks based on multichannel MAC protocol with TDMA. First, we conduct a study of the multichannel MAC protocol through Markov chain model. Based on this study, two novel cross-layer modules are adopted for the design of multichannel MAC protocol. First, we adopt maximum latency rate (MLR) as the channel quality metric. Unlike the traditional MAC design based on network allocation vector (NAV), MLR is implemented to provide differentiated traffic so that the channel with smaller MLR time is initiated for higher priority traffic. Second, we adopt two congestion-aware metrics, namely MAC utilization and queue length of MAC layer, to improve the congestion-aware routing protocols with AODV and DSR. These two novel modules allow the proposed MAC protocol design to achieve high performance video transmission over wireless ad hoc networks. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme outperforms the state-of-the-art schemes under multichannel environments in wireless ad hoc networks for as much as 3.6 dB in PSNR. Such significant performance enhancement confirms that the cross-layer approach is very effective for multichannel MAC protocol design.     

A lightweight anonymous routing protocol without public key en/decryptions for wireless ad hoc networks

More attention should be paid to anonymous routing protocols in secure wireless ad hoc networks. However, as far as we know, only a few papers on secure routing protocols have addressed both issues of anonymity and efficiency. Most recent protocols adopted public key Infrastructure (PKI) solutions to ensure the anonymity and security of route constructing mechanisms. Since PKI solution requires huge and expensive infrastructure with complex computations and the resource constraints of small ad hoc devices; a two-layer authentication protocol with anonymous routing (TAPAR) is proposed in this paper. TAPAR does not adopt public key computations to provide secure and anonymous communications between source and destination nodes over wireless ad hoc networks. Moreover, TAPAR accomplishes mutual authentication, session key agreement, and forward secrecy among communicating nodes; along with integration of non-PKI techniques into the routing protocol allowing the source node to anonymously interact with the destination node through a number of intermediate nodes. Without adopting PKI en/decryptions, our proposed TAPAR can be efficiently implemented on small ad hoc devices while at least reducing the computational overhead of participating nodes in TAPAR by 21.75%. Our protocol is certainly favorable when compared with other related protocols.     

基于链路状态加权的无线Mesh网络路由协议

由于无线Mesh网络还没有统一标准,ad hoc中的路由算法并不能完全适合无线Mesh网络.在分析ad hoc中经典路由协议AODV的基础上,结合无线Mesh网络的特点,提出了一种新颖的、基于链路状态加权的路由协议.该协议利用节点的可用带宽、吞吐性能和缓冲队列的饱和度等计算路由每一跳的代价(即权重),选择从信源到信宿累计权重最小的路径作为路由.仿真结果表明,提出的路由协议在数据包转发率、平均端到端延迟和标准化路由负栽等性能上均优于AODV,是一种适合无线Mesh网络的路由协议.     

无线传感器网络路由协议的分析与比较

无线传感器网络的路由协议设计与传统的无线ad-hoc网络有很多不同,资源高度受限和结点失效频繁是其面临的两大挑战,相关技术研究已经成为无线传感器网络研究中的热点.对近年来无线传感器网络路由协议的研究成果进行归纳、分析和比较,介绍了无线传感器网络的特点以及影响其路由协议设计的关键因素.根据协议的实现特点将无线传感器网络路由协议分为5类,对每一类涉及的重要协议进行详细阐述与分析,最后对这些协议的特点进行归纳和比较,并展望了未来这一研究方向的发展趋势.     

An efficient hop count routing protocol for wireless ad hoc networks

An efcient hop count route fnding approach for mobile ad hoc network is presented in this paper.It is an adaptive routing protocol that has a tradeof between transmission power and hop count for wireless ad hoc networks.During the route fnding process,the node can dynamically assign transmission power to nodes along the route.The node who has received route request message compares its power with the threshold power value,and then selects a reasonable route according to discriminating algorithms.This algorithm is an efective solution scheme to wireless ad hoc networks through reasonably selected path to reduce network consumption.Simulation results indicate that the proposed protocol can deliver better performances with respect to energy consumption and end-to-end delay.     

An Efcient Hop Count Routing Protocol for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

An efcient hop count route fnding approach for mobile ad hoc network is presented in this paper.It is an adaptive routing protocol that has a tradeof between transmission power and hop count for wireless ad hoc networks.During the route fnding process,the node can dynamically assign transmission power to nodes along the route.The node who has received route request message compares its power with the threshold power value,and then selects a reasonable route according to discriminating algorithms.This algorithm is an efective solution scheme to wireless ad hoc networks through reasonably selected path to reduce network consumption.Simulation results indicate that the proposed protocol can deliver better performances with respect to energy consumption and end-to-end delay.     

无线Ad Hoc网络QoS路由协议研究的进展与展望

无线ad hoc网络是一种无固定通信设备支持、节点可自由移动的多跳全分布式无线网络。无线ad hoc网络的应用环境以及与Internet的互连要求它必须提供一定的服务质量(QoS)保证，而QoS路由协议是无线ad hoc网络支持QoS的一个关键理论和技术，也是目前的一个研究热点。本文回顾了近年来国内外在无线ad hoc网络QoS路由协议研究方面取得的研究成果，对已有的无线ad hoc网络的QoS路由协议进行了分类．并对它们作了较全面的概括。总结和深入的比较分析，系统阐述了在无线ad hoc网络中实现QoS路由协议时需要考虑的因素，指出了亟待解决的问题和今后的研究方向。