RIS ID
20328
Abstract
This paper presents a new routing strategy for heterogeneous mobile ad hoc networks. We refer to this strategy as on-demand utility-based routing protocol (OUBRP). This protocol introduces a utility-based route discovery strategy, which aims to minimise the number of control packets disseminated into the network during route discovery by efficiently using available resources at each node. Furthermore, we propose a new strategy to eliminate uni-directional links during the route discovery phase. We refer to this strategy as uni-directional link elimination (ULE). We performed a simulation study to compare the performance of OUBRP with a number of different routing protocols proposed for MANETs. Our results show that OUBRP compared to other routing strategies produces significantly fewer control packets and achieves higher levels of successful packet delivery with increasing number of nodes. Furthermore, we propose a number of alternative uni-directional link elimination strategies.
Publication Details
This article was originally published as: Abolhasan, M, Lipman, J & Chicharo, J, A routing strategy for heterogeneous mobile ad hoc networks, Proceedings of the IEEE 6th Circuits and Systems Symposium on Emerging Technologies: Frontiers of Mobile and Wireless Communication, 2004, May 31-June 2 2005, 1, 13-16. Copyright IEEE 2004.