Routeless Routing and MAC-Aided Protocols for Adhoc Wireless Network

The focus of this book is ad hoc wireless networks.
A correct efficient operation of such networks
depends on the interaction of several protocols
dealing with routing, medium access control, power
control and many other issues. This book is
primarily concerned with the development and
evaluation of such protocols. It is shown how
flooding can be adopted as a reliable and efficient
routing scheme in ad hoc wireless networks. It turns
out that, with the assistance of some tunable
heuristics, flooding is not necessarily inferior to
sophisticated point-to-point forwarding schemes. A
broadcast-based route-less routing protocol is
developed in which flooding exhibits a tendency to
converge on a narrow strip of nodes along the
shortest path. A MAC-assisted minimum-energy path-
preserving topology control algorithm is also
devised to maintain connectivity using minimal
power. Routing protocols use another important
service called ''broadcasting'' for different
purposes. By adjusting the stochastic component of
the popular class of contention resolution schemes
based on IEEE 802.11, a broadcast scheme is devised
to significantly reduce broadcast latency.

Autorentext

Ashikur Rahman, PhD: Studied Computer Science and Engineering (BSc and MSc) in BUET. Completed PhD from the Department ofComputing Science, University of Alberta. Received PhD research award from the same department. Worked as a postdoctoralresearcher at Simon Fraser University. Currently AssistantProfessor at the Department of CSE, BUET.

Klappentext

The focus of this book is ad hoc wireless networks. A correct efficient operation of such networks depends on the interaction of several protocols dealing with routing, medium access control, power control and many other issues. This book is primarily concerned with the development and evaluation of such protocols. It is shown how flooding can be adopted as a reliable and efficient routing scheme in ad hoc wireless networks. It turns out that, with the assistance of some tunable heuristics, flooding is not necessarily inferior to sophisticated point-to-point forwarding schemes. A broadcast-based route-less routing protocol is developed in which flooding exhibits a tendency to converge on a narrow strip of nodes along the shortest path. A MAC-assisted minimum-energy path-preserving topology control algorithm is also devised to maintain connectivity using minimal power. Routing protocols use another important service called 'broadcasting' for different purposes. By adjusting the stochastic component of the popular class of contention resolution schemes based on IEEE 802.11, a broadcast scheme is devised to significantly reduce broadcast latency.