Title

Autonomous Mobile Mesh Networks

Keywords

Client tracking; Dynamic topology deployment; Mobile mesh networks

Abstract

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are ideal for situations where a fixed infrastructure is unavailable or infeasible. Today's MANETs, however, may suffer from network partitioning. This limitation makes MANETs unsuitable for applications such as crisis management and battlefield communications, in which team members might need to work in groups scattered in the application terrain. In such applications, intergroup communication is crucial to the team collaboration. To address this weakness, we introduce in this paper a new class of ad-hoc network called Autonomous Mobile Mesh Network (AMMNET). Unlike conventional mesh networks, the mobile mesh nodes of an AMMNET are capable of following the mesh clients in the application terrain, and organizing themselves into a suitable network topology to ensure good connectivity for both intra- and intergroup communications. We propose a distributed client tracking solution to deal with the dynamic nature of client mobility, and present techniques for dynamic topology adaptation in accordance with the mobility pattern of the clients. Our simulation results indicate that AMMNET is robust against network partitioning and capable of providing high relay throughput for the mobile clients. © 2014 IEEE.

Publication Date

2-1-2014

Publication Title

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volume

13

Issue

2

Number of Pages

364-376

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1109/TMC.2012.259

Socpus ID

84891590892 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84891590892

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