On the interaction between IEEE 802.11e and routing protocols in mobile ad-hoc network

Author

Calafate, Carlos T. ; Manzoni, Pietro ; Malumbres, Manuel P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Eng., Polytech. Univ. of Valencia, Spain

fYear

2005

fDate

9-11 Feb. 2005

Firstpage

110

Lastpage

117

Abstract

The upcoming IEEE 802.11e standard was developed to offer QoS capabilities to WLAN, offering significative improvements to multimedia traffic. MANETs also benefit from this new technology since the most widely deployed and used wireless interfaces are IEEE 802.11 based. In this paper we expose results relative to the interaction of reactive routing protocols for MANETs and the IEEE 802.11e technology. We find that very substantial improvements in terms of throughput and normalized routing overhead are achieved due to increased routing responsiveness. We also detail the relation between the behavior experienced in each case and the internal mechanisms of the routing protocol being used, offering a holistic view of the phenomena.

Keywords

IEEE standards; ad hoc networks; multimedia communication; quality of service; routing protocols; telecommunication traffic; IEEE 802.11e standard; QoS; WLAN; mobile ad-hoc network; multimedia traffic; routing protocols; Ad hoc networks; Computer networks; Delay; Intelligent networks; Multimedia systems; Routing protocols; Standards development; Streaming media; Telecommunication traffic; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing, 2005. PDP 2005. 13th Euromicro Conference on

ISSN

1066-6192

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2280-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EMPDP.2005.27

Filename

1386049