Maintaining CDS in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

  • Authors:
  • Kazuya Sakai;Min-Te Sun;Wei-Shinn Ku;Hiromi Okada

  • Affiliations:
  • Auburn University, Auburn, USA AL 36849-5347;National Central University, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan 320;Auburn University, Auburn, USA AL 36849-5347;Kansai University, Osaka, Japan 564-8680

  • Venue:
  • WASA '08 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The connected dominating set (CDS) has been generally used for routing and broadcasting in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). To reduce the cost of routing table maintenance, it is preferred that the size of CDS to be as small as possible. A number of protocols have been proposed to construct CDS with competitive size, however only few are capable of maintaining CDS under topology changes. In this research, we propose a novel extended mobility handling algorithm which will not only shorten the recovery time of CDS mobility handling but also keep a competitive size of CDS. Our simulation results validate that the algorithm successfully achieves its design goals. In addition, we will introduce an analytical model for the convergence time and the number of messages required by the CDS construction.