Management of mobile ad-hoc networks: evaluating the network behavior

The increasing interest in deploying wireless networks without fixed infrastructure, based on ad-hoc networking, raises new challenges towards monitoring and managing them to provide optimal performance. We propose in this paper a management architecture based on filtering and graph dependency analysis to evaluate the behavior of mobile ad-hoc networks. We apply an analytical method based on contrast filtering to determine network traffic patterns such as routing paths and a second method based on dependency graphs to estimate node influence in the ad-hoc network.