Mobility management in ad hoc networks using routing metrics

Sabrina Naimi (1) , Anthony Busson (2) , Véronique Vèque (1) , Ridha Bouallegue (3) , Larbi Ben Hadj Slama (3)

1 L2S - Laboratoire des signaux et systèmes
2 DANTE - Dynamic Networks : Temporal and Structural Capture Approach
3 Innov'COM Laboratory

In wireless mobile ad hoc networks, routing protocols use metrics to select the best routes. Metrics may reflect the quality of the wireless link and help to manage mobility. But, there is a delay between link quality measurements performed by the routing protocol and their instantaneous values. To compensate this delay, the idea is to anticipate the value of the metric a few seconds in advance. The purpose of this paper is to propose a new technique to compute ETX metric, that is sensitive to mobility and which optimizes throughput at the same time. We show through simulations performed with NS-3 (Network Simulator version 3) that our approach leads to Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR) close to 1 in presence of mobility.

Mots clés: mobile ad hoc networks mobility management (mobile radio) routing protocols

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Sabrina Naimi, Anthony Busson, Véronique Vèque, Ridha Bouallegue, Larbi Ben Hadj Slama. Mobility management in ad hoc networks using routing metrics. Communications and Networking (ComNet), 2014 International Conference on, Mar 2014, Hammamet, Tunisia. pp.1-6, ⟨10.1109/ComNet.2014.6840923⟩. ⟨hal-01072234⟩