On How to Circumvent the Manet Scalability Curse

Author

Davis, Chris ; Haas, Zygmunt J. ; Milner, Stuart D.

Author_Institution

Maryland Univ., College Park, MD

fYear

2006

fDate

23-25 Oct. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

An approach is offered to resolve the fundamental non-scalability of peer-to-peer, MANET networks by introducing ultra-broadband (up to and beyond 1 Gb/s), hybrid (FSO/RF) directional backbone nodes that significantly increase the end-to-end throughput of lower tier nodes. This approach represents a very different thrust from those which attempt to circumvent the limitations of low data rate (up to 54Mb/s) and short distance (hundreds of feet) MANET nodes by software fixes such as power control, MIMO, and clever modulation schemes, which are at best stop-gap measures. Our two-tiered approach is scalable based on its combination of MANET clusters interconnected with very broadband directional connections. The MANET clusters are operated within the scalability limits set by scalability density pattern and the base-station oriented directional connections use very narrow beams to provide massive spatial re-use

Keywords

ad hoc networks; broadband networks; mobile radio; MANET scalability; base-station oriented directional connection; broadband directional connection; cluster interconnection; mobile ad hoc network; scalability density pattern; two-tiered approach; MIMO; Mobile ad hoc networks; Peer to peer computing; Power control; Power measurement; Radio frequency; Scalability; Software measurement; Spine; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference, 2006. MILCOM 2006. IEEE

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0617-X

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0618-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.2006.302358

Filename

4086620