Spine routing in ad hoc networks

  • Authors:
  • Raghupathy Sivakumar;Bevan Das;Vaduvur Bharghavan

  • Affiliations:
  • Coordinated Sciences Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA;Coordinated Sciences Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA;Coordinated Sciences Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA

  • Venue:
  • Cluster Computing
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

An ad hoc network is a multihop wireless network in which mobile hosts communicate without the support of a wired backbone for routing messages. We introduce a self organizing network structure called a spine and propose a spine-based routing infrastructure for routing in ad hoc networks. We propose two spine routing algorithms: (a) Optimal Spine Routing (OSR), which uses full and up-to-date knowledge of the network topology, and (b) Partial-knowledge Spine Routing (PSR), which uses partial knowledge of the network topology. We analyze the two algorithms and identify the optimality-overhead trade-offs involved in these algorithms.