Efficient Load Balancing in MANETS to Improve Network Performance

Author

Hoang, Vinh Dien ; Shao, Zili ; Fujise, Masayuki

Author_Institution

Singapore Wireless Commun. Lab., Nat. Inst. of Inf. Commun. Technol., Singapore

fYear

2006

fDate

38869

Firstpage

753

Lastpage

756

Abstract

It is expected that future ITS (intelligent transport system) network will involve a lot of mobile equipments and form a complex network. Maintaining the good performance of this complex network is a complicated task, and efficient load balancing plays an important role. In this paper, a new load balancing solution is proposed. In this solution, the load balancing is performed by the source node based on the probe packets sent by the destination node. Doing so will reduce the number of probe packets to half. A new formula for available bandwidth estimation of 802.11 ad hoc network is also presented. The simulation results show that the proposed solution has improved the connection throughput significantly

Keywords

ad hoc networks; bandwidth allocation; mobile radio; performance evaluation; resource allocation; transportation; ITS; MANET; bandwidth estimation; destination node; intelligent transport system network; load balancing solution; mobile ad hoc network; network performance improvement; probe packet; Bandwidth; Communications technology; Complex networks; Delay effects; Intelligent networks; Intelligent systems; Laboratories; Load management; Mobile ad hoc networks; Probes; Load balancing; MANET; bandwidth estimation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

ITS Telecommunications Proceedings, 2006 6th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9587-5

Electronic_ISBN

0-7803-9587-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITST.2006.289010

Filename

4068698