Performance of multihop wireless networks: shortest path is not enough
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
A high-throughput path metric for multi-hop wireless routing
Proceedings of the 9th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
The capacity of wireless networks
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
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Self-organizing hierarchical ad hoc network (SOHAN) is a new ad-hoc network architecture designed to improve the scalability properties of conventional “flat” ad hoc networks. This network architecture consists of three tiers of ad-hoc nodes, i.e., access points, forwarding nodes and mobile nodes. This paper presents a joint topology discovery and routing protocol for the self-organization of SOHAN. We propose a cross-layer path metric based on link quality and MAC delay which plays a key role in producing an optimal cluster-based hierarchical topology with high throughput capacity. The topology discovery protocol provides the basis for routing which takes place in layer 2.5 using MAC addresses. The routing protocol is based on AODV with appropriate modifications to take advantage of the hierarchical topology and interact with the discovery protocol. Simulation results are presented which show the improved performance as well as scalability properties of SOHAN in terms of throughput capacity, end-to-end delay, packet delivery ratio and control overhead.