Improving Ad Hoc Routing by Designating Forwarding Nodes in Different Quadrants

Abstract—On demand routing protocols for ad hoc networks such as Ad Hoc On Demand Distance Vector (AODV) initiate a route discovery process when a route is needed by flooding the network with a route request packet. The route discovery process in such protocols depends on a simple flooding as a broadcast technique due to its simplicity. Simple flooding results in packet congestion, route request overhead and excessive collisions, namely broadcast storm problem. A number of routing techniques have been proposed to control the simple flooding technique. Ideally, the broadcast of route request or the route discovery process must be stopped as soon as the destination node is found. This will free the network from many redundant packets that may cause network collision and contention. In this paper, chasing packet technique is used with standard AODV routing protocol to end the fulfilled route requests. The chase packet is initiated by the source node and is broadcasted in parallel with route request packet. As soon as the destination is found the chase packet starts its work by trying to catch and discard the route request in early stages before it broadcasts further in the network. Performance evaluation is conducted using simulation to investigate the performance of the proposed scheme against the existing approach that uses chase packet technique such as Traffic Locality Route Discovery Algorithm with Chase (TLRDA-C). Results reveal that the proposed scheme minimizes end-to-end packet delays and achieves low routing request overhead.

In mobile ad hoc networks, routing schemes using location information have been proposed. Most of these schemes assume that the source node already knows the location information of the destination node. However, since all nodes are always moving, it is difficult to apply this assumption to the real mobile ad hoc environment. In order to cope this difficulty, this paper presents a new routing scheme HRLI, a Hybrid Routing with Location Information, which using the threshold for the communication range of all nodes. And it considers the location and velocity information of the destination node and the neighboring nodes. In HRLI, when a source node creates a route to a destination node, the future location of the destination node predicted by the source node is calculated using these location and velocity information. And the source node sends data packets based on the predicted location information of destination node and neighboring nodes. This paper shows that HRLI achieves high data delivery ratio and fewer overheads for using the threshold of communication range and the predicted location through simulation experiments

An ad-hoc network is a group of wireless mobile nodes which are self-creating, self-organizing, and self-administering. In these networks, selection of routing protocol is an important concern, which may enhance the performance of ad-hoc networks in terms of residual battery, average end to end delay, average jitter and throughput. To fulfill this aim, an efficient algorithm viz. enhanced DSR (DSR1) is proposed in the present work. This algorithm reduces the flooding of RREQ (route request) packets in the network which results in the reduced congestion and energy consumption. In this when a node receives a RREQ packet it checks, its own residual battery, received signal strength and speed. If the defined thresholds for the node for these mentioned parameters satisfy then the RREQ packet will be forwarded in the network. If it doesn't meet the defined threshold, the RREQ packet will be discarded. Hence the proposed algorithm prohibits the unnecessary flooding of RREQ packets. This results in the improved system performance.

Fault-tolerance has been the focus of attention recently in the research of parallel processing and computer networking. A fault-tolerant routing algorithm should guarantee the delivery of messages in the presence of faulty components. In this paper, we present a comparative performance study of seven prominent fault-tolerant routings in 2-D wormhole-switched tori. The routing algorithms here are coupled with the Software-Based routing scheme which supports dynamic fault-model, enabling the network to remain fully operational at all times. The performance measures studied here are the throughput and average message latency. Results obtained through simulation suggest two classes of presented routing schemes as high performance candidates in most faulty networks.

AODV(Ad Hoc On-Demand Distance Vector)나 DSR(Dynamic Source Routing)과 같은 대부분의 에드혹 라우팅 프로토콜은 네트워크 토폴로지가 변하지 않는 한 새로운 경로 설정을 하지 않는다. 따라서 노드의 이동성이 적은 경우, 트래픽은 몇몇 노드에게 집중될 수 있으며 그 결과로 해당 노드들의 혼잡으로 인한 긴 종단간 지연이 발생할 수 있다. 게다가 몇몇 특정 노드들만 오랫동안 계속해서 사용됨에 따라 그들의 배터리가 빠르게 소모될 것이다. 노드의 배터리 방전은 노드 사이의 연결 단절뿐만 아니라 동시에 새로운 경로 설정을 위하여 많은 route re-quest 패킷(RREQ)을 생성시킨다. 본 논문에서는 각 노드가 자신의 트래픽 부하 상태를 기반으로 RREQ 패킷을 무시하거나 패킷 포워딩을 포기할 수 있게 함으로써 트래픽 집중화 문제를 해결할 수 있는 SLA(Simple Load-balancing Approach)를 제안한다. 그러나 어떤 이기적인 노드들은 자신의 에너지를 절약하기 위하여 고의적으로 패킷 포워딩을 거부할 수도 있다. 이러한 노드들을 패킷 포워딩에 참여시키기 위하여 본 논문에서는 PIFA(Protocol-Independent Fairness Algorithm) 보상 방식을 제안하였다. SLA 성능의 우수함을 증명하기 위하여 SLA를 채택한 AODV 방식과 SLA를 채택하지 않은 AODV 방식을 비교 실험하였고, 이를 통하여 SLA를 채택한 방식이 트래픽 부하 분산에 효율적이며 이로 인하여 전체 에드혹 네트워크 성능 또한 향상시킴을 확인하였다. Most ad-hoc routing protocols such as AODV(Ad Hoc On-Demand Distance Vector) and DSR(Dynamic Source Routing) do not try to search for new routes if the network topology does not change. Hence, with low node mobility, traffic may be concentrated on several nodes, which results in long end-to-end delay due to congestion at the nodes. Furthermore, since some specific nodes are continuously used for long duration, their battery power may be rapidly exhausted. Expiration of nodes causes connections traversing the nodes to be disrupted and makes many routing requests be generated at the same time. Therefore, we propose a load balancing approach called Simple Load-balancing Approach (SLA), which resolves the traffic concentration problem by allowing each node to drop RREQ (Route Request Packet) or to give up packet forwarding depending on its own traffic load. Meanwhile, mobile nodes nay deliberately give up forwarding packets to save their own energy. To make nodes volunteer in packet forwarding. we also suggest a payment scheme called Protocol-Independent Fairness Algorithm (PIEA) for packet forwarding. To evaluate the performance of SLA, we compare two cases where AODV employs SLA or not. Simulation results show that SLA can distribute traffic load well and improve performance of entire ad-hoc networks.

For the problem that the existing ZigBee hybrid routing algorithms have serious energy consumption of the network, ZigBee hybrid routing algorithm for network energy optimization based on node cluster label is proposed. Utilizing the node cluster label, node judges whether the destination node is in the same cluster. The proposed algorithm employs the improved AODVjr (Ad hoc On-demand Distance Vector junior) and tree routing algorithm based on neighbor tables respectively between clusters and within clusters to reduce the energy consumption of network. Besides, the proposed algorithm can control the transmission range of RREQ (Route Request) packets through setting the maximum transmission hops of RREQ packet reasonably in the process of routing discovery. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can effectively reduce the routing overhead ratio and increase residual energy ratio of the network.

The periodic event scheduling problem (PESP) is a well studied problem known as intrinsically hard. Its main application is for designing periodic timetables in public transportation. To this end, the passengers' paths are required as input data. This is a drawback since the final paths which are used by the passengers depend on the timetable to be designed. Including the passengers' routing in the PESP hence improves the quality of the resulting timetables. However, this makes PESP even harder. Formulating the PESP as satisfiability problem and using SAT solvers for its solution has been shown to be a highly promising approach. The goal of this paper is to exploit if SAT solvers can also be used for the problem of integrated timetabling and passenger routing. In our model of the integrated problem we distribute origin-destination (OD) pairs temporally through the network by using time-slices in order to make the resulting model more realistic. We present a formulation of this integrated problem as integer program which we are able to transform to a satisfiability problem. We tested the latter formulation within numerical experiments, which are performed on Germany's long-distance passenger railway network. The computation's analysis in which we compare the integrated approach with the traditional one with fixed passengers' weights, show promising results for future scientific investigations.

The routing problem is one of the studied transportation problems. In the paper the communication networks routing problem is presented. This problem is an example of mulitcriteria optimization problem which the solution is the set of non–dominated solutions. Four algorithms for determination routes belong to the set of non–dominated solutions are shown. Additionally, other routing problems that have been researched by staff of the Institute of Informatics are discussed.

Constructing a route connecting a source node to a destination node is one of the central problems in sensor networks and mobile computing. In this paper we consider the application of a data structure called ExtDCEL that can be very effective in implementing several location-based routing algorithms that include face routing, greedy most forward routing, and hybrid routing. The ExtDCEL data structure is very convenient for representing unit disk graphs as well as planar components. Many network properties can be computed locally when the graph is represented in ExtDCEL. In particular, we show how the popular hybrid greedy face routing algorithm can be implemented efficiently by using ExtDCEL.

Let G be an undirected weighted graph with n vertices and m edges, and k >= 1 be an integer. We preprocess the graph in O^~(mn) time, constructing a data structure of size O^~ k deg{v}+n^{1/k}) words per vertex v in V, which is then used by our routing scheme to ensure successful routing of packets even in the presence of a single edge fault. The scheme adds only O(k) words of information to the message. Moreover, the stretch of the routing scheme, i.e., the maximum ratio of the cost of the path along which the packet is routed to the cost of the actual shortest path that avoids the fault, is only O(k^2). Our results match the best known results for routing schemes that do not consider failures, with only the stretch being larger by a small constant factor of O(k). Moreover, a 1963 girth conjecture of Erdos, known to hold for k=1,2,3 and 5, implies that Omega(n^{1+1/k}) space is required by any routing scheme that has a stretch less than 2k+1. Hence our data structures are essentially space efficient. The algorithms are extremely simple, easy to implement, and with minor modifications, can be used under a centralized setting to efficiently answer distance queries in the presence of faults. An important component of our routing scheme that may be of independent interest is an algorithm to compute the shortest cycle passing through each edge. As an intermediate result, we show that computing this in a distributed model that stores at each vertex the shortest path tree rooted at that node requires Theta(mn) message passings in the worst case.

We propose a unifying framework based on configuration linear programs and randomized rounding, for different energy optimization problems in the dynamic speed-scaling setting. We apply our framework to various scheduling and routing problems in heterogeneous computing and networking environments. We first consider the energy minimization problem of scheduling a set of jobs on a set of parallel speed-scalable processors in a fully heterogeneous setting. For both the preemptive-non-migratory and the preemptive-migratory variants, our approach allows us to obtain solutions of almost the same quality as for the homogeneous environment. By exploiting the result for the preemptive-non-migratory variant, we are able to improve the best known approximation ratio for the single processor non-preemptive problem. Furthermore, we show that our approach allows to obtain a constant-factor approximation algorithm for the power-aware preemptive job shop scheduling problem. Finally, we consider the min-power routing problem where we are given a network modeled by an undirected graph and a set of uniform demands that have to be routed on integral routes from their sources to their destinations so that the energy consumption is minimized. We improve the best known approximation ratio for this problem.

This paper proposes a link quality aware routing protocol for MANETs resulting in robust delivery and high performance by finding out a reliable path with strong links. During route discovery, the strong links are effectively exploited by forwarding the route request (RREQ) packet with the highest link quality or signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) among the multiple RREQ packets received. Compared to the conventional protocols such as AODV, in which only the first-arrived RREQ is forwarded and the others are ignored, the proposed scheme may not have the minimum hop-count route but the one with more number of hops. However, the discovered route is a reliable path with high data rate because it consists of strong links, resulting in high performance as well as robust routing. According to our performance study, it is shown that packet delivery ratio is improved by up to 70% and per-route goodput is dramatically increased by a factor of up to 12. It is also shown that the acceptable value of the RREQ waiting time (T <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">w</sub> ) is 1 msec in the simulated environment, which is enough to achieve fairly good performance.

Vehicle routing problems are at the heart of most decision support systems for real-life distribution problems. In vehicle routing problem a set of routes must be determined at lowest total cost fo...

Flying ad hoc network (FANET) is a new technology, which creates a self-organized wireless network containing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). In FANET, routing protocols deal with important challenges due to limited energy, frequent link failures, high mobility of UAVs, and limited communication range of UAVs. Thus, a suitable path is always essential to transmit data between UAVs. In this paper, a local filtering-based energy-aware routing scheme (LFEAR) is proposed for FANETs. LFEAR improves the template of the route request (RREQ) packet by adding three fields, namely the energy, reliable distance, and movement similarity of the relevant route to create stable and energy-efficient paths. In the routing process, LFEAR presents a local filtering construction technique to avoid the broadcasting storm issue. This filter limits the broadcasting range of RREQs in the network. Accordingly, only UAVs inside this local filtered area can rebroadcast RREQs and other UAVs must eliminate these packets. After ending the route discovery process, the destination begins the route selection phase and extracts information about each discovered route, including the number of hops, route energy, reliable distance, and movement similarity. Then, the destination node calculates a score for each path based on the extracted information, selects the route with the highest score, and sends a route reply (RREP) packet to the source node through this route. Finally, the simulation process of LFEAR is performed using the NS2 simulator, and two simulation scenarios, namely change in network density and change in the speed of UAVs, are defined to evaluate network performance. In the first scenario, LFEAR improves energy consumption, packet delivery rate, network lifespan, and delay by 1.33%, 1.77%, 6.74%, and 1.71%, while its routing overhead is about 16.51% more than EARVRT. In the second scenario, LFEAR optimizes energy consumption and network lifetime by 5.55% and 5.67%, respectively. However, its performance in terms of routing overhead, packet delivery rate, and delay is 23%, 2.29%, and 6.67% weaker than EARVRT, respectively.

This paper introduces a new IEEE standard, IEEE 802.15.5,which provides mesh capability for wireless personal area network (WPAN) devices. The standard provides an architectural framework enabling WPAN devices to promote interoperable, stable, and scalable wireless mesh topologies. It is composed of two parts: low-rate WPAN mesh and high-rate WPAN mesh. In this paper, we present only low-rate WPAN mesh because it is designed to support wireless sensor networks. IEEE 802.15.5 low-rate part is a light-weight scalable mesh routing protocol that caters well to the requirements of resource-constrained wireless sensor networks. By binding logical addresses to the network topology, IEEE 802.15.5 obviates the need for route discovery. This eliminates the initial route discovery latency, saves storage space and reduces the communication overhead and energy consumption. A distributed link state scheme is further built atop the block addressing scheme to improve the quality of routes, robustness, and load balancing. The routing scheme scales well with regard to various performance metrics. The standard also provides enhanced functions such as multicast, reliable broadcast, power saving, time synchronization, route tracing and portability. We also present the performance evaluation of major functions performed with a 50-nodes tested deployed over a whole floor (100 × 140 ft2) at CUNY Engineering building. The results testify that the IEEE 802.15.5 will serve well for wireless personal area networks and wireless sensor networks.