A review of routing protocols for UWB MANETs

  • Authors:
  • Yahia Hasan Jazyah;Martin Hope

  • Affiliations:
  • Centre for Network and Telecommunications Research, The University of Salford, Salford, UK;Centre for Network and Telecommunications Research, The University of Salford, Salford, UK

  • Venue:
  • ICCSA'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Computational Science and Its Applications - Volume Part III
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) have witnessed an increasing amount of interest during the last decade. Hosts (or nodes) within the network are mobile, and each node is equipped with a short range transmitter and receiver, antenna, and local power supply. Nodes then operate as a router to relay messages from the sender to the receiver, and they can be organised into different topologies; for example: they can be flat or hierarchical, they can move in any direction and speed, and they can communicate with each other through wireless routing protocols. More recently, systems based on Ultra-WideBand (UWB) technology have become a promising candidate in application to MANETs. This is mainly due to their powerful capabilities, such as their high data rates and low power consumption, and although many routing protocols have been designed for ad-hoc networks, few have considered their application to UWB based MANETs. This paper presents a review of different types of wireless routing protocols for MANETs with a concluding emphasis on their application to UWB based systems.