Hierarchical Cellular-Based management for mobile hosts in Ad-Hoc wireless networks

  • Authors:
  • Chih-Yung Chang;Chao-Tsun Chang

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer and Information Science, Aletheia University, 32 Chen-Li Street, Tamsui, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC;Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Central University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

  • Venue:
  • Computer Communications
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

This study proposes a hierarchical Cellular-Based management model for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks. The proposed management model allows the mobile host to establish a stable communication path with fewer flooding messages and smaller hop count. In the single-level management, a host is selected to act as manager, constructing a communication path and managing the mobile hosts in a specific cellular region to significantly reduce the number of flooding packets. Two-level management is also proposed, to reduce the hop count and enhance the efficiency of constructing the QoS routing path. The Cellular-Based management model is compared with Triangular- and Zone-based management models. Performance evaluation shows that hierarchical Cellular-Based management more efficiently reduces the number of flooding messages and the hop count of the routing paths.