GloMoSim: a library for parallel simulation of large-scale wireless networks
PADS '98 Proceedings of the twelfth workshop on Parallel and distributed simulation
A distance routing effect algorithm for mobility (DREAM)
MobiCom '98 Proceedings of the 4th annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Mobile computing and networking
A performance comparison of multi-hop wireless ad hoc network routing protocols
MobiCom '98 Proceedings of the 4th annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Ad Hoc mobility management with uniform quorum systems
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
A group mobility model for ad hoc wireless networks
MSWiM '99 Proceedings of the 2nd ACM international workshop on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
Embedding robots into the Internet
Communications of the ACM
A scalable location service for geographic ad hoc routing
MobiCom '00 Proceedings of the 6th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Capacity of Ad Hoc wireless networks
Proceedings of the 7th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Metropolitan Area Mobile Services to Support Virtual Groups
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
The Critical Transmitting Range for Connectivity in Sparse Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Graph-Based Mobility Model for Mobile Ad Hoc Network Simulation
SS '02 Proceedings of the 35th Annual Simulation Symposium
The number of neighbors needed for connectivity of wireless networks
Wireless Networks
Capacity regions for wireless ad hoc networks
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
A survey on position-based routing in mobile ad hoc networks
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
A mobility prediction based relay deployment framework for conserving power in manets
Proceedings of the 10th ACM Symposium on Modeling, analysis, and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
An approach for bandwidth reservation in ad-hoc networks having infrastructure support
ACS'07 Proceedings of the 7th Conference on 7th WSEAS International Conference on Applied Computer Science - Volume 7
Short Communication: Improving connectivity in vehicular ad hoc networks: An analytical study
Computer Communications
Empowered by wireless communication: Distributed methods for self-organizing traffic collectives
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS)
Hovering data clouds: a decentralized and self-organizing information system
IWSOS'06/EuroNGI'06 Proceedings of the First international conference, and Proceedings of the Third international conference on New Trends in Network Architectures and Services conference on Self-Organising Systems
A Localized Computing Approach for Connectivity Improvement Analysis in Wireless Personal Networks
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
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Ad-Hoc networks are useful where infrastructure networks cannot be deployed or are not cost effective, like temporary deployment in a conference or in case of emergency. However, the nature of ad-hoc networks and especially the mobility of nodes make it difficult to achieve a certain minimum connectivity, which is an indispensable property for many applications. The question we are interested in is: How can connectivity in ad-hoc networks be improved? In this paper, we suggest to introduce dedicated mobile nodes whose only purpose is to maintain the network. These "Mobile Infrastructure NodEs" (MINEs) move to positions where they are useful to (re-)create links between normal nodes. We introduce into the MINE concept and then present and analyze several information exploitation and movement strategies these infrastructure nodes could follow in order to efficiently complete their job. These strategies are based on a location exchange protocol which we call Mobile Infrastructure Location Exchange (MILE). Simulations compare the different strategies and show the usefulness of the approach, and they argue for the efficiency of the MILE protocol.