Mobile Agent Based Topology Discovery in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Author

Wei, Jing ; Guo, Wei ; Su, Jian ; Tang, Wei

Author_Institution

Nat. Key Lab. of Commun., Univ. of Electron. Sci. & Technol. of China, Chengdu, China

fYear

2009

fDate

24-26 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this paper, a novel mobile agent based topology discovery protocol is proposed for mobile ad hoc networks. Unlike existing protocols which also utilize mobile agents to collect topology information, the proposed protocol not only considers the fairness of the node visitation time by the agents, but also takes the frequency topology changes into consideration. The protocol optimizes the migrating strategy of the mobile agents during the topology discovery process. Simulation results show that the proposed protocol outperforms existing protocols in mobile ad hoc networks.

Keywords

ad hoc networks; mobile agents; mobile radio; protocols; telecommunication computing; telecommunication network topology; mobile ad hoc network; mobile agent based topology discovery protocol; Access protocols; Ad hoc networks; Circuit topology; Convergence; Frequency; Laboratories; Mobile ad hoc networks; Mobile agents; Mobile communication; Network topology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2009. WiCom '09. 5th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3692-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3693-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WICOM.2009.5302119

Filename

5302119