An integrated platform for quality-of-service support in mobile multimedia clustered ad hoc networks

  • Authors:
  • George N. Aggélou

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Technology, Athens, Greece

  • Venue:
  • The handbook of ad hoc wireless networks
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

One feature that distinguishes the ad hoc wireless network from traditional wired networks and PCS (Personal Communication Networks) is that all hosts in a mobile ad hoc network (MANET) are allowed to move freely without the need for static access points. This distinct feature, however, presents a great challenge to the design of the routing scheme and the support of multimedia services, since the link quality and the network topology may be fast changing as hosts roam around. In order to support the rapidly deployable, wireless, multimedia network requirements, Quality-of-Service (QoS) routing is the key to multimedia support. The goal is to find satisfactory paths that support the end-to-end QoS requirements of multimedia flows. This article presents fundamental issues in QoS routing in wireless networks; a QoS routing framework tailored for operation within a wireless ad hoc network is further proposed, and its operation is analyzed. The proposed QoS-based routing framework aims at providing a differentiated service treatment to multimedia traffic flows at the link level using novel techniques for channel assignment and end-to-end path QoS maximization. This is achieved by giving the routing mechanism access to QoS information, thus coupling the coarse grain (routing) and fine grain (congestion control) resource allocations. The system performance is examined through simulation experiments under various QoS traffic flows and mobility environments. The protocol's behavior and the changes introduced by variations on some of the mechanisms that make up the protocol are further investigated, examining which mechanisms have the greatest impact and exploiting the tradeoffs that exist between them.