Mobile and Wireless Communications Networks

Contents

UNDERSTANDING THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN UNICAST AND GROUP COMMUNICATIONS SESSIONS IN AD HOC NETWORKS

1. Introduction

2. Background

3. Issues that may arise when unicast and group communications protocols coexist

3.1 Degradations in Packet Delivery Performance

3.2 Increased Latency Effects

3.3 Increased Control Overhead

4. Simulation Study

4.1 Simulation results

4.2 The effects of unicast protocol on the performance of group communication protocols

4.3 The effects of group communications protocols on the performance of the unicast protocol

5. Conclusions

References

CROSS- LAYER SIMULATION AND OPTIMIZATION FOR MOBILE AD- HOC NETWORKS

Introduction

1. Related Work

2. IEEE 802.11 MAC Layer Approach

3. Network Layer Approach

4. Expected Result

5. Future Works

6. Simulation Issues

7. Conclusion

References

IMPROVING TCP PERFORMANCE OVER WIRELESS NETWORKS USING LOSS DIFFERENTIATION ALGORITHMS

1. Introduction

2. TCP NewReno Enhanced with Vegas Loss Predictor

3. Simulation Network Model

4. Accuracy Evaluation

5. TCP Performance over Wireless Links

6. Conclusions

References

TCP PERFORMANCES IN A HYBRID BROADCAST/ TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM

1. Introduction

2. Issues raised by the GPRS return channel

2.1 GPRS Bidirectional mode

2.2 GPRS Unidirectional mode

2.3 GPRS uplink critical throughput

3. Simulation studies of the hybrid network performances

3.1 Simulation model of the hybrid network

3.2 Asymmetries

3.3 Hybrid routing

4. Experimentations

5. Conclusion

References

HANDOFF NOTIFICATION IN WIRELESS HYBRID NETWORKS

1. Introduction

2. Wireless Hybrid Network

3. Comparing the Route Update strategies

3.1 Acknowledged broadcast

3.2 Simulation Results

4. Optimization of the mobility notification

4.1 Differential Route updates

4.2 Nack route

4.3 Nack only

4.4 Simulation Results

5. Conclusion

References

SELECTIVE ACTIVE SCANNING FOR FAST HANDOFF IN WLAN USING SENSOR NETWORKS

1. Introduction

2. Layer 2 Handoff Process and Related Works

3. Architecture Design

3.1 Architecture overview

3.2 Selective Active Scanning for Fast Handoff

3.3 Benefit of the overlay sensor network

4. Evaluation

5. Conclusion

References

AN ANALYSIS OF MOBILE IPv6 SIGNALING LOAD IN NEXT GENERATION MOBILE NETWORKS

1. INTRODUCTION

2. BINDING UPDATE PROCEDURE

3. BASELINE MOBILE IPv6 SIGNALING LOAD

4. ANALYSIS OF INBAND SIGNALING

5. CONCLUSION

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

REFERENCES

PEER-TO-PEER BASED ARCHITECTURE FOR MOBILITY MANAGEMENT IN WIRELESS NETWORKS

1. INTRODUCTION

2. RELATED WORK

3. PEER-TO-PEER BASED ARCHITECTURE

3.1 System Overview

3.2 DNS Structure

3.3 P2P Structure

3.4 Region Structure

3.5 System Operations

4. PERFORMANCE EVALUATION

5. CONCLUSION

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

REFERENCES

SUPPORTING GROUPWARE IN MOBILE NETWORKS

1. Introduction

2. Related Work

3. Model and Architecture

3.1 Network model

3.2 Design goals

3.3 Architecture

4. MGM Protocols

4.1 Exploiting Mobile IP

4.2 DNS based solutions

4.3 MGMFlood

4.4 MGMLeader

4.5 Dynamic MGMs

5. MGM Protocol Evaluation

5.1 Packet delay evaluation

5.2 Control plane evaluation

6. Transport Issues

7. Conclusions

References

RSM-WISP: ROAMING AND SERVICE MANAGEMENT IN HOTSPOT NETWORKS THROUGH A POLICY BASED MANAGEMENT ARCHITECTURE

1. INTRODUCTION

2. HOTSPOT ACCESS NETWORK MANAGEMENT

2.1 Management Objectives

2.2 Management Challenges

3. RSM-WISP

3.1 Architecture

3.2 Policy Specification

3.3 Architecture Implementation

4. CONCLUSION

5. REFERENCES

INTEGRATED RECONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT FOR THE SUPPORT OF END TO END RECONFIGURATION

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 Towards reconfigurability

1.2 Related work

2. RECONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT ASPECTS

3. RECONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT PLANE ARCHITECTURE

3.1 General architecture

3.2 Architectural components

3.3 Communication between RMP and external entities

3.4 Case studies

4. CONCLUSIONS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

REFERENCES

REPLICA ALLOCATION CONSIDERING DATA UPDATE INTERVALS IN AD HOC NETWORKS

1. Introduction

2. Related Works

3. Assumptions and Approach

4. Replica Allocation Methods

4.1 Replica allocation

4.2 Cache invalidation

5. Simulation Experiments

5.1 Simulation model

5.2 Effects of value

5.3 Effects of average update period

6. Conclusions

Acknowledgments

References

ANOVA-INFORMED DECISION TREES FOR VOICE APPLICATIONS OVER MANETS*

1. Introduction

2. Simulation Analysis of Audio Packet Delays

3. Designed Experiments and ANOVA Analysis

4. Learning Theory and Decision Trees

5. DoE and Learning Methodologies DoE and ANOVA Methodologies

6. DoE and Learning Theory Results and Discussion DoE Results and Discussion

7. Conclusions and Future Work

References

ROUTE STABILITY TECHNIQUES FOR ENHANCED VIDEO DELIVERY ON MANETS

1. Introduction

2. Related work

3. Route discovery extensions to DSR

4. Effects of route stability on real-time video streams

5. Multipath routing

6. Overall evaluation

7. Summary

References

A NEW SMOOTHING JITTER ALGORITHM FOR VOICE OVER AD HOC NETWORKS

ON THE COMPLEXITY OF RADIO RESOURCES ALLOCATION IN WCDMA SYSTEMS

1 INTRODUCTION AND SYSTEM MODEL

2 DOWNLINK

3 UPLINK

4 CONCLUDING REMARKS

REFERENCES

OPTIMIZATION OF PILOT POWER FOR SERVICE COVERAGE AND SMOOTH HANDOVER IN WCDMA NETWORKS

1. Introduction

2. System Model

2.1 Preliminaries

2.2 Service Constraints

3. Problem Definition

4. Two Ad Hoc Solutions

5. Mathematical Formulations

5.1 A Cell- bin Formulation

5.2 A Refined Formulation

6. A Lagrangean Heuristic

7. Numerical Study

8. Conclusions

Acknowledgments

References

AN ALTERNATIVE METRIC FOR CHANNEL ESTIMATION WITH APPLICATIONS IN BLUETOOTH SCHEDULING

1. INTRODUCTION

2. RELATED WORK ON PICONET SCHEDULING

3. ESTIMATORS FOR THE NAKAGAMI FADING PARAMETER

4. PROPOSED SCHEDULING ALGORITHM

5. SIMULATION RESULTS

6. CONCLUDING REMARKS

7. REFERENCES

DISTRIBUTED PAIRWISE KEY GENERATION USING SHARED POLYNOMIALS FOR WIRELESS AD HOC NETWORKS

1. INTRODUCTION

2. BACKGROUND

2.1 Bivariate polynomial- based key pre- distribution

2.2 Threshold secret sharing

3. PROPOSED DISTRIBUTED KEY GENERATION SCHEME

4. PERFORMANCE EVALUATION

5. CONCLUSION

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

COLLABORATION ENFORCEMENT AND ADAPTIVE DATA REDIRECTION IN MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKS USING ONLY FIRSTHAND EXPERIENCE

1. INTRODUCTION

2. RELATED WORK

3. THE EXPERIENCE-BASED APPROACH

3.1 Node Configurations

3.2 Selfish and Malicious Behaviors Considered

3.3 Detection and Punishment of Selfishness and Malice in Data Forwarding

3.4 Dynamic Redirection

4. EXPERIMENTAL STUDY

5. CONCLUDING REMARKS

A SIMPLE PRIVACY EXTENSION FOR MOBILE IPV6

1. Introduction

2. Problem Statement

3. Some possible solutions

4. Our Proposal

4.1 Temporary Mobile Identifier ( TMI)

4.2 Protocol description

5. Privacy with Hierarchical Mobile IPv6

6. Conclusions

References

A TRUST- BASED ROUTING PROTOCOL FOR AD HOC NETWORKS

1. Introduction

2. Related work

3. TRP protocol

4. Performance evaluation

5. Residual vulnerability

6. Conclusion and future work

References

SHORT- TERM FAIRNESS OF 802.11 NETWORKS WITH SEVERAL HOSTS

1. Introduction

2. Related work

3. Fairness

3.1 Number of inter- transmissions

3.2 Sliding window method with the Jain fairness index

4. Experimental results

4.1 Number of inter- transmissions

4.2 Sliding window method with Jain fairness index

4.3 Delay

5. Conclusion

References

RAAR: A RELAY-BASED ADAPTIVE AUTO RATE PROTOCOL FOR MULTI- RATE AND MULTI-RANGE INFRASTRUCTURE WIRELESS LANS*

1. Introduction

2. Relay-Based Adaptive Auto Rate Control protocol (RAAR)

3. Throughputs of IEEE 802.11 MAC, RAAR and D-RAAR

4. Conclusion

References

A NON-TOKEN-BASED-DISTRIBUTED MUTUAL EXCLUSION ALGORITHM FOR SINGLE-HOP MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKS

1. Introduction

1.1 Related Works

1.2 Our contribution

2. Basic definitions

3. A single-hop mutual exclusion algorithm

3.1 Processing an example

3.2 The Algorithm

3.3 The use of a counter in each station

3.4 Evaluation of the number of broadcast rounds necessary for n stations to enter the same CS

4. Experimental results

5. Concluding remarks

References

THE RECEIVER’S DILEMMA

1. Introduction

2. A Fundamental MANET Problem

3. Some Strategies to Deal with Fading

4. Simulation Analysis

5. Summary and Conclusions

Notes

References

THEORETICAL CAPACITY OF MULTI-HOP WIRELESS AD HOC NETWORKS

1. Introduction

2. Analysis of Network Saturation Capacity

2.1 Boundary Conditions

2.2 Discussion

3. Analysis of Maximum Instantaneous Capacity

3.1 Maximum Number of Simultaneously Active Links

3.2 The Bottleneck Aggregate Link Set

3.3 Discussion

4. Conclusions

HOW TO DISCOVER OPTIMAL ROUTES IN WIRELESS MULTIHOP NETWORKS

1. Introduction

2. Shortest Path Algorithms & Routing Metrics

3. Existing Distributed Algorithms for Optimal Routing Ad Hoc Networks

4. A Distributed Version of Dijkstra’s Shortest Path Algorithm

4.1 Key Concepts & Basic Algorithm

4.2 Mapping Metric Values to

5. Implementational Aspects

5.1 Differential Delay Mapping

5.2 Local Delay Mapping

6. Conclusions & Further Work

References

ASYMPTOTIC PHEROMONE BEHAVIOR IN SWARM INTELLIGENT MANETS

1. Introduction

1.1 Previous Work

1.2 Structure of Paper

2. Termite Routing for MANETs

2.1 A Short Introduction to Ad-Hoc Networks

2.2 Termite

3. The Model

4. Pheromone Update Analysis

4.1 Single Link Pheromone

4.2 Two Link Pheromone

5. Analysis

6. Conclusion

References

RANDOMIZED ROUTING ALGORITHMS

Introduction

1.1 Definitions of Routing Algorithms

1.2 Empirical results

1.2.1 Simulation Environment

1.2.2 Discussion of Results

1.3 Summary

Acknowledgments

References

RBR: REFINEMENT- BASED ROUTE MAINTENANCE PROTOCOL IN WIRELESS AD HOC NETWORKS

1. Introduction

2. Passive Probe Route Redirection

3. Active Probe Route Redirection

4. Performance Evaluations

5. Conclusion

References

ENABLING ENERGY DEMANDRESPONSE WITH VEHICULAR MESH NETWORKS

1. INTRODUCTION

2. VMESH DESIGN RATIONALE FOR DEMAND RESPONSE

3. VMESH ARCHITECTURE

4. ROUTING IN VMESH

5. PRELIMINARY RESULTS

6. CONCLUSION AND FUTURE WORK

References

CONTEXT-AWARE INTER-NETWORKING FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS

1. Introduction

2. Network model: the cell approach

3. Heterogeneous merging: a smooth approach

3.1 The case of heterogeneous cell interoperability

3.2 Addressing heterogeneous cell interoperability

4. Design and mechanisms

4.1 The NRPDP Protocol

4.2 The Routing Translator Daemon

5. Application: AODV ( DSR, OLSR)

5.1 AODV DSR

5.2 AODV OLSR

6. Conclusion

References

PERFORMANCE IMPACT OF MOBILITY IN AN EMULATED IP- BASED MULTIHOP RADIO ACCESS NETWORK

1. Introduction

2. Description of the Testbed

3. Mobility Models

3.1 Random Waypoint Model

3.2 Random Direction Model

4. Performance Evaluation

4.1 Setup

4.2 Movement Parameters

4.3 Results and Interpretation

5. Related Work

6. Conclusions and Further Work

Notes

References

Broadcast Services and Topology Control in Ad-Hoc Networks

1 Introduction

2 MAC Design and Broadcast services for Ad Hoc Networks

3 Topology Control in Ad Hoc Networks

4 The ADHOC-MAC protocol

4.1 RR-ALOHA

4.2 Multi-Hop Broadcast

4.3 Topology Control in ADHOC MAC

5 Performance Evaluation

5.1 Single Hop Broadcast Efficiency

5.2 Multi-Hop Broadcast efficiency

5.3 Topology Control Algorithm Efficiency

6 Conclusions

References

SPACE AND TIME CURVATURE IN INFORMATION PROPAGATION IN MASSIVELY DENSE AD HOC NETWORKS

1. Introduction

2. Quantitative results on time slotted networks Quantification of the problem

3. Massively dense networks

4. Introduction of time component

5. Conclusion and perspectives

References

CLUSTER-BASED LOCATION-SERVICES FOR SCALABLE AD HOC NETWORK ROUTING

1. INTRODUCTION

2. RELATED WORK AND OUR MOTIVATION

2.1 Basic Principles of Location-Based Routing

2.2 Related Work on Location-service

2.3 Related Work on Clustering

2.4 Our Motivation

3. HOME-ZONE BASED HIERARCHICAL LOCATION MANAGEMENT

3.1 Associativity-based Stable Clustering

3.2 Homezone-based Hierarchical Location-Service

4. EVALUATION THROUGH SIMULATION

5. CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE WORK

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

REFERENCES

ON SELECTING NODES TO IMPROVE ESTIMATED POSITIONS

1. Introduction

2. Assumptions and definitions

3. Anchors selection

3.1 Simple convex hull

3.2 Advanced hull

4. Simulation Results

4.1 Evaluation of the hull selection

5. Conclusion

References

ENERGY-EFFICIENT MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS IN LOSSY MULTI- HOP WIRELESS NETWORKS

1. Introduction

2. Energy Management in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks

2.1 Energy-Aware Communication

2.2 Supporting End-to-End Communication with Hop-by-Hop Mechanisms

3. Protocol Effectiveness and Energy Efficiency

4. Application-Aware Link Layer Protocol

4.1 Transport Protocol Support

4.2 Intelligent Dropping Mechanism

4.3 The Retransmission Mechanism

5. Evaluation

5.1 Effects of Error Rate on Performance

5.2 Effects of Mobility on Performance

6. Conclusions

References

ANALYZING THE ENERGY CONSUMPTION OF IEEE 802.11 AD HOC NETWORKS

1. Introduction

2. Energy Consumption of the Nodes

3. Power Saving Techniques

4. Conclusions

References

ENERGY-EFFICIENT RELIABLE PATHS FOR ON-DEMAND ROUTING PROTOCOLS

1. Introduction

2. Related Work

3. Minimum Energy Reliable Paths

3.1 Hop-by-Hop Retransmissions (HHR):

3.2 End-to-End Retransmissions (EER):

4. Estimating Link Error Rate

4.1 BER using Radio Signal-to-Noise Ratio

4.2 BER using Link Layer Probes

4.3 BER Estimation for Variable Power Case

5. AODV and its Proposed Modifications

5.1 AODV Messages and Structures

5.2 Route Discovery

6. Simulation Experiments and Performance Evaluation

6.1 Network Topology and Link Error Modeling

6.2 Metrics

6.3 Static Grid Topologies

6.4 Static Random Topologies

6.5 Mobile Topologies

7. Conclusions

MINIMUM POWER SYMMETRIC CONNECTIVITY PROBLEM IN WIRELESS NETWORKS: A NEW APPROACH

1. Introduction

2. Problem description

3. An integer programming formulation

3.1 Valid inequalities

4. Preprocessing procedure

5. The iterative exact algorithm

6. Computational results

6.1 Preprocessing procedure

6.2 IEX algorithm

7. Conclusion

Acknowledgments

References