A cross-layer approach for designing directional routing protocol in MANETs

Author

Gossain, Hrishikesh ; Joshi, Tarun ; Cordeiro, Carlos ; Agrawal, Dharma P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Comput. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Cincinnati Univ., OH, USA

Volume

4

fYear

2005

fDate

13-17 March 2005

Firstpage

1976

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a directional routing protocol (DRP) for MANETs. DRP is an on-demand directional routing protocol which assumes a cross layer interaction between routing and MAC layer. The main features of DRP include an efficient route discovery mechanism, establishment and maintenance of directional routing and directional neighbor tables (DRT and DNT, respectively), and novel directional route recovery mechanisms. We have implemented DRP on top of an existing MAC protocol for directional antennas and have compared its performance with the popular dynamic source routing (DSR) protocol over both omni-directional and directional antenna models. Preliminary, simulation results are found to be very promising.

Keywords

access protocols; ad hoc networks; directive antennas; mobile radio; routing protocols; MAC protocol; MANET; cross layered DRP; directional antennas; directional neighbor tables; directional route recovery mechanisms; on-demand directional routing protocol; route discovery mechanism; routing/MAC layer cross layer interaction; Access protocols; Computer networks; Cross layer design; Directional antennas; Intelligent networks; Media Access Protocol; Mobile ad hoc networks; Mobile computing; Network topology; Routing protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2005 IEEE

ISSN

1525-3511

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8966-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCNC.2005.1424822

Filename

1424822