Mobility Metrics for Adaptive Routing

Author

Qin, Liang ; Kunz, Thomas

Author_Institution

Dept. of Syst. & Comput. Eng., Carleton Univ., Ottawa, Ont.

Volume

3

fYear

2006

fDate

28-28 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

803

Lastpage

808

Abstract

Most existing mobile ad hoc routing protocols preset the parameters for the nodes based on some assumed network conditions. Because of the dynamic characteristics of a MANET, network conditions are changing at different points of time. Adaptively adjusting routing behavior by individual nodes will improve the routing protocol performance. In this paper, we mainly focus on the node mobility, and show the correlation between overall performance and node mobility level with simulation results for three different mobility models. We also study the effect of the mobility from point of view of individual nodes. Finally we propose the number of link breakages as a mobility metric, which is mobility model independent, that nodes can use it to monitor the environment changes

Keywords

ad hoc networks; mobile radio; routing protocols; MANET; ad hoc routing protocols; adaptive routing mobility metrics; mobility metric; node mobility level; Adaptive systems; Bandwidth; Computer networks; Condition monitoring; Mobile ad hoc networks; Mobile computing; Network topology; Routing protocols; Systems engineering and theory; Telecommunication traffic;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks, 2006. SECON '06. 2006 3rd Annual IEEE Communications Society on

Conference_Location

Reston, VA

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0626-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SAHCN.2006.288564

Filename

4068373