Mobility Metrics to Enable Adaptive Routing in MANET

Author

Qin, Liang ; Kunz, Thomas

Author_Institution

Dept. of Syst. & Comput. Eng., Carleton Univ., Ottawa, Ont.

fYear

2006

fDate

19-21 June 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

The performance of MANET routing protocol depends on the network conditions, which includes mobility, congestion and transmission condition. In this paper, we discuss the impact of mobility on the performance of the routing protocols, using three different mobility models. We further look into different parameters which change with the mobility from the point of view of individual nodes, showing that nodes experience different levels of mobility at different points of time. Finally we propose that the number of link breakages observed by a node can be used as a mobility metric so that each individual node can adjust its routing behavior based on the environment around it to improve the overall routing protocol performance

Keywords

ad hoc networks; mobile radio; routing protocols; MANET; mobile ad hoc network; mobility metric; routing protocol; Bandwidth; Computer networks; Drives; Intelligent networks; Mobile ad hoc networks; Network topology; Routing protocols; Systems engineering and theory; Telecommunication traffic; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications, 2006. (WiMob'2006). IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Montreal, Que.

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0494-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WIMOB.2006.1696350

Filename

1696350