Self organization in mobile ad hoc networks: the approach of Terminodes

  • Authors:
  • L. Blazevic;L. Buttyan;S. Capkun;S. Giordano;J. -P. Hubaux;J. -Y. Le Boudec

  • Affiliations:
  • Swiss Federal Inst. of Technol., Lausanne;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Communications Magazine
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

The Terminodes project is designing a wide-area mobile ad hoc network which is meant to be used in a public environment; in our approach, the network is run by users themselves. We give a global description of the building blocks used by the basic operation of the network; they all rely on various concepts of self-organization. Routing uses a combination of geography-based information and local MANET-like protocols. Terminode positioning is obtained by either GPS or a relative positioning method. Mobility management uses self-organized virtual regions. Terminodes employ a form of virtual money called nuglets as an incentive to collaborate. Lastly, we discuss directions for providing some level of security