A new routing protocol for village radio network

Author

Cheng, Jing ; Seah, Winston K G

Author_Institution

Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore

Volume

2

fYear

2003

Firstpage

975

Abstract

We present an innovative source-initiated on-demand routing for mobile ad hoc networking. This protocol does not introduce any new messages, e.g. RREQ in route discovery; routers can infer routes from broadcast messages. The protocol operates in an energy-efficient manner by minimizing flooding of messages after nodes have learned routes from messages, and eventually stop broadcasting after the route has been established. To support the new routing protocol, we have a new TDMA-based MAC protocol. Our simulation results show that this new MAC protocol performs better in the village radio network than the IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol does. Our simulation results also show that this new routing scheme is quite suitable for the original flooding-based village radio network, which no existing ad hoc routing protocol can be used. This routing scheme is also effective as it provides fairly high packet delivery at both high and low mobility settings. Furthermore, this routing scheme is energy-efficient as it eliminates packet flooding.

Keywords

access protocols; ad hoc networks; mobile radio; routing protocols; time division multiple access; IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol; TDMA-based MAC protocol; ad hoc routing protocol; mobile ad hoc networking; mobility settings; packet delivery; packet flooding; routing protocol; village radio network; Data communication; Energy efficiency; Interference; Maintenance engineering; Media Access Protocol; Mobile ad hoc networks; Radio broadcasting; Radio network; Routing protocols; Spread spectrum communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2003. VTC 2003-Spring. The 57th IEEE Semiannual

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7757-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECS.2003.1207771

Filename

1207771