Strategies for Finding Stable Paths in Mobile Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

  • Authors:
  • Michael Gerharz;Christian de Waal;Peter Martini;Paul James

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • LCN '03 Proceedings of the 28th Annual IEEE International Conference on Local Computer Networks
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

In this paper, we introduce statistical methods to estimatethe stability of paths in a mobile wireless ad hoc environment.Identifying stable paths helps to reduce controltraffic and the number of connection interruptions. Bymeans of simulation, we analyse the stability of paths chosenaccording to a variety of strategies, including those usedby the well-known routing protocols AODV and DSR, undera variety of different mobility patterns. This offers new insightsinto the relation between a path's stability and othercharacteristics and shows that our statistical metrics areable to identify stable paths in a wide range of scenarios.