Title: IMPLEMENTATION AND PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF A MULTI-MESHED TREE ROUTING PROTOCOL FOR MANETS
Abstract: OF THE THESIS Implementation and Performance Analysis of a Multi-Meshed Tree Routing Protocol for MANETs by Rohit Thareja Thesis Director: Prof. Ivan Marsic As the importance of mobile data connectivity in our daily lives increases, there has been an accompanying increase in the demand for rapidly deployable, short-lived networks which operate without any base infrastructure. This is where Mobile-ad-hoc Networks step in to turn the dream of getting connected anywhere and at any time into a reality and are fast being adopted into civilian applications like vehicular networks and location-based advertising. They have several advantages over infrastructure based wireless networks ( like cellular networks ) in terms of cost of deployment, ability to use unlicensed bands, etc. However, they are still plagued with several constraints mainly brought about by their dynamic nature. The main concern here is the use of an efficient routing protocol which must be adaptive and able to maintain routes in spite of the changing network connectivity. In this work we investigate a recently-proposed cluster-based routing protocol which utilizes both mesh and tree concepts and aims at minimizing the control overhead required in the setup and maintenance of the network while maintaining robust connectivity. This hybrid protocol, called Multi-Meshed Tree routing protocol, has a unique way of addressing the issues of dynamic adaptation and enhanced connectivity through
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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