BRAVO: Potential field-based routing and network coding for efficient wireless MANETs

Author

Firoiu, Victor ; Haiyang Liu

Author_Institution

BAE Syst., Burlington, MA, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

Oct. 29 2012-Nov. 1 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

In this paper, we address the problem of efficient data transmission in MANETs with high mobility. Our approach combines multipath routing with network coding for efficient and robust communication. Computing efficient multipath routing has been a difficult problem: solutions either are too complex, use resources inefficiently, or have high communication overhead. Our solution models the data flow as an electric current flowing over an electric network, and draws its efficiency, stability and robustness from the properties of potential fields. The fully implemented BRAVO system using potential field-based routing and network coding provides 2x to 4.6x gains in throughput compared to the current state of the art protocols in emulation experiments with highly dynamic wireless MANETs.

Keywords

military communication; mobile ad hoc networks; network coding; telecommunication network routing; BRAVO; data flow; data transmission; dynamic wireless MANET; electric network; multipath routing; network coding; potential field-based routing; tactical wireless network; Ad hoc networks; Mobile computing; Network coding; Routing; Routing protocols; Wireless communication; Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks; Multi-path Routing; Network Coding; Potential Field-Based Routing; Wireless;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE, 2012 - MILCOM 2012

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

ISSN

2155-7578

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1729-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.2012.6415846

Filename

6415846