Title
Mercator: self-organizing geographic connectivity maps for scalable ad-hoc routing
Abstract
A fundamental problem of future networks is to get fully self-organized routing protocols with good scalability properties that produce good paths in a wide range of network densities. Current approaches, geographic routing and table based routing, fail to provide very good scalability with good paths in sparse networks. We propose a method based on the discovery of connectivity between geographic regions that are self-organized in a multilevel hierarchy. The Mercator protocol builds lightweight connectivity maps in a fully decentralized manner and shows a scalable and resilient behaviour. Each node builds and maintains its own hierarchical map that summarizes connectivity information of all the network around itself using geographic regions. Link state routing is used over the multilevel connectivity graph of the map to obtain global paths. The analysis and simulation of our approach show that routing state and communication overhead grows logarithmically with network size while producing good paths.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1007/978-3-540-74917-2_3
IWSOS
Keywords
Field
DocType
scalable ad-hoc routing,future network,geographic routing,geographic region,geographic connectivity map,multilevel connectivity graph,connectivity information,good scalability,good path,link state routing,good scalability property,lightweight connectivity map,connected graph,routing protocol,link state,self organization
Multipath routing,Link-state routing protocol,Dynamic Source Routing,Hierarchical routing,Static routing,Policy-based routing,Computer science,Computer network,Wireless Routing Protocol,Geographic routing,Distributed computing
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
4725
0302-9743
3-540-74916-0
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
13
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Luis A. Hernando100.34
Unai Arronategui2356.92