Performance study of proactive flow handoff for mobile ad hoc networks

Authors:
Kui Wu;Janelle Harms
Affiliations:
Computer Science Department, University of Victoria, BC, Canada;Computing Science Department, University of Alberta, AB, Canada
Venue:
Wireless Networks
Year:
2006

Citing 12
Cited 1

GloMoSim: a library for parallel simulation of large-scale wireless networks

PADS '98 Proceedings of the twelfth workshop on Parallel and distributed simulation
Location-aided routing (LAR) in mobile ad hoc networks

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
The Cricket location-support system

MobiCom '00 Proceedings of the 6th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
A scalable location service for geographic ad hoc routing

MobiCom '00 Proceedings of the 6th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
GPSR: greedy perimeter stateless routing for wireless networks

MobiCom '00 Proceedings of the 6th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Preemptive routing in Ad Hoc networks

Proceedings of the 7th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Loop-Free Hybrid Single-Path/Flooding Routing Algorithms with Guaranteed Delivery for Wireless Networks

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice

Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice
Ad-hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Routing

WMCSA '99 Proceedings of the Second IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computer Systems and Applications
Profile-Based Protocols in Wireless Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

LCN '01 Proceedings of the 26th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks
Intrusion detection techniques for mobile wireless networks

Wireless Networks

HOPNET: A hybrid ant colony optimization routing algorithm for mobile ad hoc network

Ad Hoc Networks

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

A Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) is a collection of wireless mobile computers forming a temporary network without any existing wire line infrastructure. Searching for feasible paths, or routing, is very challenging in mobile ad hoc networks because of frequent topology changes caused by users' mobility. Location information is required by some applications and can be used to facilitate routing implementation. In this paper, we propose a proactive flow handoff method based on nodes' location information. In summary, location information is utilised to reduce the control overhead in route discovery phase, to search quickly for a feasible path upon link breakage, and to hand off a flow to a stable path if the active one breaks based on predication. Keeping "always-on" end-to-end connectivity once a flow is established is the main advantage of this routing method. A through simulation study is performed to demonstrate the efficiency of this method.