A group mobility model for ad hoc wireless networks
MSWiM '99 Proceedings of the 2nd ACM international workshop on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
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ANODR: anonymous on demand routing with untraceable routes for mobile ad-hoc networks
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Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
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Using tactical navigation systems is popular for military as well as search and rescue applications. For such applications, the significance of the tactical navigation systems arises especially when groups with the same goal move together on the terrain. Such systems rely on mobile ad-hoc communications rather than the classical infrastructure. In this paper, we aim to develop a cross-layer communication protocol suite for a tactical navigation assistance system. The traffic-adaptive medium access protocol (TRAMA) and a gossip-based ad hoc routing protocol are modified according to the needs of the tactical navigation applications. The efficiency of the MAC and the network layer is improved by using geographical information acquired by the application layer. Such an improvement relieves the MAC layer and the network layer from sending extra control messages, thereby leading to more efficient bandwidth usage. Furthermore, data fusion is performed for the frames in the MAC layer queue according to information quality. As a result, for environments with a low mobility rate, an efficient, collision-free MAC layer protocol and a fast data diffusing routing protocol is achieved.