Hierarchical Cellular-Based management for mobile hosts in Ad-Hoc wireless networks

✍ Scribed by Chih-Yung Chang; Chao-Tsun Chang

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 310 KB
• Volume: 24
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0140-3664
• DOI: 10.1016/s0140-3664(01)00307-3

✦ Synopsis

This study proposes a hierarchical Cellular-Based management model for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks. The proposed management model allows the mobile host to establish a stable communication path with fewer ¯ooding messages and smaller hop count. In the single-level management, a host is selected to act as manager, constructing a communication path and managing the mobile hosts in a speci®c cellular region to signi®cantly reduce the number of ¯ooding packets. Two-level management is also proposed, to reduce the hop count and enhance the ef®ciency of constructing the QoS routing path. The Cellular-Based management model is compared with Triangular-and Zone-based management models. Performance evaluation shows that hierarchical Cellular-Based management more ef®ciently reduces the number of ¯ooding messages and the hop count of the routing paths.