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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: Supporting the Dynamic Deployment and Reconfiguration of Ad-Hoc Routing Protocols
AU - Ramdhany, Rajiv
AU - Grace, Paul
AU - Coulson, Geoffrey
AU - Hutchison, David
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - The innate dynamicity and complexity of mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) has resulted in numerous ad-hoc routing protocols being proposed. Furthermore, numerous variants and hybrids continue to be reported in the literature. This diversity appears to be inherent to the field it seems unlikely that there will ever be a 'one-size-fits-all' solution to the ad-hoc routing problem. However, typical deployment environments for ad-hoc routing protocols still force the choice of a single fixed protocol; and the resultant compromise can easily lead to sub-optimal performance, depending on current operating conditions. In this paper we address this problem by exploring a framework approach to the construction and deployment of ad-hoc routing protocols. Our framework supports the simultaneous deployment of multiple protocols so that MANET nodes can switch protocols to optimise to current operating conditions. The framework also supports finer-grained dynamic reconfiguration in terms of protocol variation and hybridisation. We evaluate our framework by using it to construct and (simultaneously) deploy two popular ad-hoc routing protocols (DYMO and OLSR), and also to derive fine-grained variants of these. We measure the performance and resource overhead of these implementations compared to monolithic ones, and find the comparison to be favourable to our approach.
AB - The innate dynamicity and complexity of mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) has resulted in numerous ad-hoc routing protocols being proposed. Furthermore, numerous variants and hybrids continue to be reported in the literature. This diversity appears to be inherent to the field it seems unlikely that there will ever be a 'one-size-fits-all' solution to the ad-hoc routing problem. However, typical deployment environments for ad-hoc routing protocols still force the choice of a single fixed protocol; and the resultant compromise can easily lead to sub-optimal performance, depending on current operating conditions. In this paper we address this problem by exploring a framework approach to the construction and deployment of ad-hoc routing protocols. Our framework supports the simultaneous deployment of multiple protocols so that MANET nodes can switch protocols to optimise to current operating conditions. The framework also supports finer-grained dynamic reconfiguration in terms of protocol variation and hybridisation. We evaluate our framework by using it to construct and (simultaneously) deploy two popular ad-hoc routing protocols (DYMO and OLSR), and also to derive fine-grained variants of these. We measure the performance and resource overhead of these implementations compared to monolithic ones, and find the comparison to be favourable to our approach.
KW - Ad-hoc routing
KW - protocol frameworks
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=70549109967&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-10445-9_1
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-10445-9_1
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SN - 978-3-642-10444-2
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
SP - 1
EP - 20
BT - Proceedings of the 10th ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference (Middleware 2009)
A2 - Bacon, JM
A2 - Cooper, BF
PB - SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN
CY - Berlin
T2 - 10th International Middleware Conference
Y2 - 30 November 2009 through 4 December 2009
ER -