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Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review
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TY - GEN
T1 - Manetkit: A Framework for MANET Routing Protocols
AU - Ramdhany, Rajiv
AU - Coulson, Geoffrey
PY - 2008/6
Y1 - 2008/6
N2 - Research in MANETs has resulted in the development of numerous and diverse routing protocols. We argue in this paper that this diversity is inherent to the MANET domain and therefore it will be important in future environments to simultaneously support multiple MANET protocols. On this basis, we propose a highly configurable component framework that facilitates the support of multiple MANET protocols and accommodates pluggable protocol functionality. Importantly, the framework also allows protocols to be composed, decomposed and hybridised in a variety of ways to create value-added functionality. In addition, it has coherent support for dynamic reconfiguration which opens the possibility for protocol hybridisation strategies to be safely executed at run-time. The paper outlines the functionality of the framework, illustrates its configurability, and offers a preliminary performance evaluation that demonstrates acceptable overhead.
AB - Research in MANETs has resulted in the development of numerous and diverse routing protocols. We argue in this paper that this diversity is inherent to the MANET domain and therefore it will be important in future environments to simultaneously support multiple MANET protocols. On this basis, we propose a highly configurable component framework that facilitates the support of multiple MANET protocols and accommodates pluggable protocol functionality. Importantly, the framework also allows protocols to be composed, decomposed and hybridised in a variety of ways to create value-added functionality. In addition, it has coherent support for dynamic reconfiguration which opens the possibility for protocol hybridisation strategies to be safely executed at run-time. The paper outlines the functionality of the framework, illustrates its configurability, and offers a preliminary performance evaluation that demonstrates acceptable overhead.
KW - Ad hoc routing
KW - MANET
KW - adaptive routing
KW - middleware
KW - protocol frameworks
U2 - 10.1109/ICDCS.Workshops.2008.63
DO - 10.1109/ICDCS.Workshops.2008.63
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SN - 978-0-7695-3173-1
SP - 261
EP - 266
BT - 28th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops, 2008. ICDCS '08.
PB - IEEE
T2 - 5th Workshop on Wireless Ad hoc and Sensor Networks (WWASN2008)
Y2 - 17 January 2008 through 20 January 2008
ER -