Improving MANET routing with satellite out-of-band signaling

Carlos Giraldo Rodriguez (1) , Laurent Franck (2, 3) , André-Luc Beylot (4, 5) , Cédric Baudoin (6)

1 TéSA - Télécommunications Spatiales et Aéronautiques - Telecommunications for Space ant Aeronautics
2 MO - Département Micro-Ondes
3 Lab-STICC_TB_CACS_IAS
4 IRIT-RMESS - Réseaux, Mobiles, Embarqués, Sans fil, Satellites
5 Toulouse INP - Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse)
6 TAS - Thales Alenia Space [Toulouse]

Routing in mobile ad hoc networks is a complex task due to the mobility of the nodes and the constraints linked to a wireless multihop network (e.g., limited bandwidth, collisions, and bit errors). These adverse conditions impair not only data traffic but also routing signaling traffic, which feeds route computation. In this contribution, we propose to use satellite communications to help in the distribution of mobile ad hoc network routing signaling. The optimized link-state routing (OLSR) is chosen among several routing protocols to be extended with satellite-based signaling, yielding a version we call OLSR hybrid signaling (OLSR-H). This new scheme is evaluated through simulations and yields improvements of approximately 10% in the data delivery ratio compared with a regular OLSR. This evaluation is conducted using two different network topology models, one being fit for representing forest firefighting operations.

Mots clés: OLSR; Satellite; Emergency; Ad hoc networking; Routing

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]; Système d'exploitation [cs.OS]; Architectures Matérielles [cs.AR]; Systèmes embarqués

Carlos Giraldo Rodriguez, Laurent Franck, André-Luc Beylot, Cédric Baudoin. Improving MANET routing with satellite out-of-band signaling. International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking, 2013, 31 (6), pp.303-315. ⟨10.1002/sat.1034⟩. ⟨hal-01127996⟩