Lessons learned from the simulation experience of a three-tier multi-hop wireless Internet architecture

  • Authors:
  • Habib M. Ammari

  • Affiliations:
  • Center for Research in Wireless Mobility and Networking (CReWMaN), Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019, USA

  • Venue:
  • Information Sciences: an International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The mobile Internet provides mobile nodes with continuous access to the Internet resources. This type of service is guaranteed only if these mobile nodes are one-hop away from the edge of the Internet. Mobile ad hoc networks (MANET), however, enable multi-hop communication between mobile nodes. A more promising goal would be to connect MANET to the Internet, thus enabling mobile nodes to benefit from the multi-hop nature of MANET so they can to share access to the Internet resources with the stationary nodes. This paper aims to study a three-tier architecture to provide MANET nodes with multi-hop Internet connectivity, evaluate its performance through extensive experiments with respect to a set of decision parameters, and outline the lessons learned from these experiments.