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Ad hoc wireless distribution service

About: Ad hoc wireless distribution service is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 17734 publications have been published within this topic receiving 488205 citations.


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07 Oct 2002
TL;DR: This paper proposes a proactive scheme for dynamic allocation of IP addresses in MANETs and uses the concept of binary split and shows that the solution is scalable and does not have the limitations of earlier approaches.
Abstract: A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) consists of a set of identical mobile nodes communicating with each other via wireless links. The network's topology may change rapidly and unpredictably. Such networks may operate in a stand-alone fashion, or may be connected to the larger Internet. In traditional networks, hosts rely on centralized servers like DHCP for configuration, but this cannot be extended to MANETs because of their distributed and dynamic nature. Many schemes have been proposed to solve this problem. Some of these approaches try to extend the IPv6 stateless autoconfiguration mechanism to MANETs, some use flooding the entire network to come up with a unique IP address, and others distribute IP addresses among nodes (using binary split) so that each node can independently configure new nodes. None of these existing solutions consider network partitioning and merging. In this paper, we propose a proactive scheme for dynamic allocation of IP addresses in MANETs. Our solution also uses the concept of binary split and takes into consideration the previously unsolved issues like partitioning and merging and abrupt departure of nodes from the system. We show that our solution is scalable and does not have the limitations of earlier approaches.

228 citations

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TL;DR: This paper categorizes computation offloading into three modes: remote cloud service mode, connected ad hoc cloudletService mode, and opportunistic ad hocCloudlet service mode and conducts a detailed analytic study for the proposed three modes of computation offload at ad hoccloudlet.
Abstract: As mobile devices are equipped with more memory and computational capability, a novel peer-to-peer communication model for mobile cloud computing is proposed to interconnect nearby mobile devices through various short range radio communication technologies to form mobile cloudlets, where every mobile device works as either a computational service provider or a client of a service requester. Though this kind of computation offloading benefits compute-intensive applications, the corresponding service models and analytics tools are remaining open issues. In this paper we categorize computation offloading into three modes: remote cloud service mode, connected ad hoc cloudlet service mode, and opportunistic ad hoc cloudlet service mode. We also conduct a detailed analytic study for the proposed three modes of computation offloading at ad hoc cloudlet.

227 citations

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TL;DR: This paper examines five different combinations of modifications that may be incorporated into virtually any on‐demand protocol in order to improve its scalability.
Abstract: As mobile networking continues to experience increasing popularity, the need to connect large numbers of wireless devices will become more prevalent. Many recent proposals for ad hoc routing have certain characteristics that may limit their scalability to large networks. This paper examines five different combinations of modifications that may be incorporated into virtually any on-demand protocol in order to improve its scalability. The scalability of current on-demand routing protocols is evaluated through the selection of a representative from this class of protocols. The performance of the un-modified on-demand protocol is compared against that of it combined with each of the scalability modifications. Each scheme's behavior is analyzed in networks as large as 10,000 nodes through detailed simulation. Based on the observations, conclusions are drawn as to the expected scalability improvement that can be achieved by each modification.

227 citations

Proceedings ArticleDOI
08 Mar 2005
TL;DR: A scalable service discovery protocol for MANETs is introduced, which is based on the homogeneous and dynamic deployment of cooperating directories within the network, and the use of compact directory summaries that enable to efficiently locate the directory that most likely caches the description of a given service.
Abstract: Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs) conveniently complement infrastructure-based networks, allowing mobile nodes to spontaneously form a network and share their services, including bridging with other networks, either infrastructure-based or ad hoc. However, distributed service provisioning over MANETs requires adequate support for service discovery and invocation, due to the network's dynamics and resource constraints of wireless nodes. While a number of existing service discovery protocols have shown to be effective for the wireless environment, these are mainly aimed at infrastructure-based and/or 1-hop ad hoc wireless networks. Some discovery protocols for MANETs have been proposed over the last couple of years but they induce significant traffic overhead, and are thus primarily suited for small-scale MANETs with few nodes. Building upon the evaluation of existing protocols, we introduce a scalable service discovery protocol for MANETs, which is based on the homogeneous and dynamic deployment of cooperating directories within the network. Scalability of our protocol comes from the minimization of the generated traffic, and the use of compact directory summaries that enable to efficiently locate the directory that most likely caches the description of a given service

226 citations

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TL;DR: 18 reasons why short-hop routing is not as beneficial as it seems to be are listed and experimental evidence is provided to support this claim.
Abstract: For multihop wireless networks, a fundamental question is whether it is advantageous to route over many short hops (short-hop routing) or over a smaller number of longer hops (long-hop routing). Short-hop routing has gained a lot of support, and its proponents mainly produce two arguments: reduced energy consumption and higher signal-to-interference ratios. Both arguments stem from a simplified analysis based on crude channel models that neglects delay, end-to-end reliability, bias power consumption, the impact of channel coding, mobility, and routing overhead. In this article we shed more light on these issues by listing 18 reasons why short-hop routing is not as beneficial as it seems to be. We also provide experimental evidence to support this claim. The conclusion is that for many networks, long-hop routing is in every aspect a very competitive strategy.

225 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202317
202261
20215
20202
20192
201856