DocumentCode :
3433844
Title :
A multipath traffic balancing proposal to reduce gaming disconnections in MANET
Author :
Kaiser, Arnaud ; Achir, Nadjib ; Boussetta, Khaled
Author_Institution :
Inst. Galilee, Univ. of Paris 13, Villetaneuse, France
fYear :
2010
fDate :
20-22 Oct. 2010
Firstpage :
1
Lastpage :
5
Abstract :
In this work, we aim to improve the gameplay of time-sensitive video games over MANETs. We focus on disconnections problem. Precisely, if the path between a game client and the server breaks, the game on the player side freezes and becomes unplayable until that the network re-establishes the path toward the server. In MANETs, these disconnections occur mainly because of nodes mobility. To overcome this problem, we propose in this paper a multipath approach, which will compute for each source-destination couple two paths. The first path is constructed using end-to-end delay metric. The latter has a well-known impact on the gameplay of time sensitive multiplayers games. The second path is constructed once we have removed from the topology the link in the first path with the lowest ETX value. An adaptive traffic balancing algorithm is also considered. The proportion of traffic carried by each path depends on its robustness. The results for our experiments, which are based on a real implementation of our proposals, show that using multipath and balancing traffic among different paths reduce routes failures and thus improves the gameplay.
Keywords :
mobile ad hoc networks; mobility management (mobile radio); multipath channels; telecommunication network topology; telecommunication traffic; MANET; adaptive traffic balancing; gaming disconnections; multipath traffic balancing; nodes mobility; time-sensitive video games; topology; Delay; Games; Mobile ad hoc networks; Routing; Routing protocols; Servers; MANET; Networked games; OLSR; multipath source routing; traffic balancing;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Wireless Days (WD), 2010 IFIP
Conference_Location :
Venice
ISSN :
2156-9711
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9230-5
Electronic_ISBN :
2156-9711
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/WD.2010.5657771
Filename :
5657771
Link To Document :
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