Routing Protocols for an Integrated Cellular and Ad-hoc Network with Flexible Access and Their Overhead Analysis

Author

Wu, Yumin ; Yang, Kun ; Zhong, Shaochun ; Wang, Wenyong ; Shen, Jun

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Syst. Eng., Essex Univ., Colchester

Volume

3

fYear

2006

fDate

Aug. 30 2006-Sept. 1 2006

Firstpage

681

Lastpage

684

Abstract

This paper proposes an adaptive routing protocol called ARFA for an integrated cellular and ad hoc heterogeneous network with flexible access (iCAR-FA). An iCAR-FA system offers a flexible traffic diversion mechanism that allows a mobile host to utilize the bandwidth in another cell, as such easing the congestion problem and increasing the throughput in a cellular network. Based on the presentation of the iCAR-FA physical characteristics, the paper details the design issues and operation of ARFA. Detailed numerical analysis on routing overhead, which is along with some general evaluations, has indicated the effectiveness and efficiency of the ARFA protocol

Keywords

ad hoc networks; bandwidth allocation; cellular radio; routing protocols; telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication traffic; ARFA adaptive routing protocol; bandwidth utilization; congestion problem; flexible access ad-hoc heterogeneous network; flexible traffic diversion mechanism; integrated cellular network; mobile host; Ad hoc networks; Bandwidth; Cellular networks; Frequency; Land mobile radio cellular systems; Numerical analysis; Relays; Routing protocols; Systems engineering and theory; Telecommunication traffic;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Innovative Computing, Information and Control, 2006. ICICIC '06. First International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2616-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICICIC.2006.517

Filename

1692268