Title :
Cost adaptive mechanism to provide network diversity for MANET reactive routing protocols
Author :
Roux, N. ; Pegon, Jean-Sebastien ; Subbarao, Madhavi W.
Author_Institution :
Wireless Commun. Technol. Group, Nat. Inst. of Stand. & Technol., Gaithersburg, MD, USA
Abstract :
We develop a cost adaptive mechanism (CAM) that can be used with any MANET (mobile ad hoc network) reactive routing protocol employing a route discovery mechanism. Through CAM, various link cost metrics are gathered, including transmission power required on a link, remaining battery life, and traffic load of each node. A route selection time window is introduced to allow the destination node and the source node to select among viable routes according to current network needs, thereby providing a level of network diversity. We evaluate the performance of CAM and present our preliminary results
Keywords :
land mobile radio; protocols; telecommunication network routing; CAM; MANET reactive routing protocols; cost adaptive mechanism; destination node; link cost metrics; mobile ad hoc network; network diversity; performance; remaining battery life; route discovery mechanism; route selection time window; source node; traffic load; transmission power; Batteries; CADCAM; Communications technology; Computer aided manufacturing; Costs; Mobile ad hoc networks; NIST; Routing protocols; Telecommunication traffic; Wireless communication;
Conference_Titel :
MILCOM 2000. 21st Century Military Communications Conference Proceedings
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6521-6
DOI :
10.1109/MILCOM.2000.904958
