Paper Info
Title
Dynamic Hello/Timeout timer adjustment in routing protocols for reducing overhead in MANETs
Abstract
With the recent advancement and extensive spread of mobile devices, establishing a network with those devices has become more important than ever before. MANETs (Mobile Ad hoc NETworks) have become a promising solution to set up a network with any mobile device. Routing in MANET is still a difficult task since the mobility of the nodes affects the local connections and makes the network topology change constantly. Traditional routing protocols in MANET work sending periodic messages to realize the changes in the topology in order to maintain the local connections up-to-date. However, sending periodic messages at a fixed rate can cause overhead in situations where it can be prevented and thus reduced. In this paper, we introduce a scheme to improve the performance of the routing protocols used in MANET focusing on the reduction of the overhead. In the proposed scheme, instead of sending periodic messages at a fixed rate, we use a link change rate estimation to dynamically adjust the rate at which each node sends the control messages. The link change rate estimation is based on the constant measurement of the local connectivity that reflects the network conditions. We evaluate the performance of our scheme using ns-2 and we compare it to other approaches to show its advantages. With the usage of our scheme, we notice a considerable reduction of the overhead without sacrificing the overall performance of the tested protocols.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1016/j.comcom.2010.06.011
Computer Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
MANET,Soft state protocol,Overhead reduction,Dynamic timer adjustment
Mobile computing,Mobile ad hoc network,Wireless network,Computer science,Computer network,Network topology,Timeout,Optimized Link State Routing Protocol,Wireless ad hoc network,Routing protocol
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
33
15
Computer Communications
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
10
0.76
9
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nelson Hernandez-Cons1101.10
Shoji Kasahara221028.10
Yutaka Takahashi36512.25