A novel solution for global connectivity in MANET

Author

Hoang, Vinh Dien ; Shao, Zhenhai ; Fujise, Masayuki ; Nguyen, Hoang Minh

Author_Institution

Wireless Commun. Lab., Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Singapore, Singapore

Volume

4

fYear

2004

fDate

26-29 Sept. 2004

Firstpage

2819

Abstract

Providing an effective Internet access solution for mobile nodes in a mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a challenging task because of the dynamic nature of the ad hoc network. This dynamic nature leads to difficulties in addressing, routing and data delivery. In this paper, we proposed a new solution for Internet access by using multiple access routers (ARs) simultaneously. This brings a lot of benefits such as effective soft-handoff, throughput improvement, load balancing between ARs, etc. In addition, hierarchical mobile IP (HMIP) is incorporated into our solution to speed up handoff, and to maintain the Internet connection using the regional care of address (RCoA). The simulation results for both proactive and reactive ad hoc routing protocols with two ARs show an improvement of network throughput, especially in the small sized network.

Keywords

IP networks; Internet; ad hoc networks; internetworking; mobile radio; routing protocols; HMIP; Internet access; MANET global connectivity; RCoA; access router load balancing; autoconfiguration; hierarchical mobile IP; hybrid networks; internetworking; mobile ad hoc network; multiple access routers; proactive ad hoc routing protocols; reactive ad hoc routing protocols; regional care of address; soft-handoff; throughput improvement; Ad hoc networks; Communications technology; IP networks; Laboratories; Load management; Mobile ad hoc networks; Routing protocols; Throughput; Web and internet services; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2004. VTC2004-Fall. 2004 IEEE 60th

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8521-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECF.2004.1400573

Filename

1400573