Link Stability and Route Lifetime in Ad-hoc Wireless Networks
ICPPW '02 Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops
Strategies for Finding Stable Paths in Mobile Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
LCN '03 Proceedings of the 28th Annual IEEE International Conference on Local Computer Networks
From battlefields to urban grids: New research challenges in ad hoc wireless networks
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
Cross-layer adaptive control for wireless mesh networks
Ad Hoc Networks
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
Ad hoc routing for multilevel power save protocols
Ad Hoc Networks
Discovering long lifetime routes in mobile ad hoc networks
Ad Hoc Networks
A Self-Repairing Tree Topology Enabling Content-Based Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Security and QoS Self-Optimization in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Reliable and efficient forwarding in ad hoc networks
Ad Hoc Networks
Cross-layer design optimizations in wireless protocol stacks
Computer Communications
Cross-layer design: a survey and the road ahead
IEEE Communications Magazine
Quality-of-service routing for supporting multimedia applications
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Provisioning of adaptability to variable topologies for routing schemes in MANETs
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
QoS-aware routing based on bandwidth estimation for mobile ad hoc networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Quality of Service in mobile ad hoc networks: a survey
International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing
Survey Paper: Routing protocols in ad hoc networks: A survey
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Efficient self-organized backbone formation in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs)
Computers and Electrical Engineering
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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.