Multihop Ad Hoc Networking: The Reality
IEEE Communications Magazine
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A 3D underlay routing protocol, for scenarios with device and networking technology heterogeneity is presented. It provides mechanisms for the seamless interoperation of dynamic, heterogeneous ad hoc networks. This underlay protocol aggregates and exchanges device context information, such as hardware resources, channel state information and network interfaces to build its routing decisions. 3D Routing considers the following fundamental emergency networking aspects: the bootstrapping process of the network(s) and nodes, the building and spreading of context information between the nodes, and the assignment of roles to particular nodes. To this end, we discuss how these ideas are designed and implemented in order to provide seamless interoperability for this type of emerging networking scenarios.