BRD: bilateral route discovery in mobile ad hoc networks

  • Authors:
  • Rendong Bai;Mukesh Singhal

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY;Department of Computer Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

  • Venue:
  • NETWORKING'07 Proceedings of the 6th international IFIP-TC6 conference on Ad Hoc and sensor networks, wireless networks, next generation internet
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Traditionally, route discovery in MANETs operates in unilateral (source-initiated) manner. We propose a new scheme called bilateral route discovery (BRD), where both source and destination actively participate in a route discovery process. BRD has the potential to reduce the control overhead by one half. As an underlying protocol for BRD, we propose gratuitous route error reporting (GRER) to notify the destination of a broken route. The destination can thus play an active role in the upcoming route re-discovery.