Displacement Based Route Update Strategies for Proactive Routing Protocols in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Authors

Mehran Abolhasan, University of WollongongFollow
Tadeusz Wysocki, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

2003

Comments

Published in Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Digital Signal Processing and Communication Systems (DSPCS’03) and Proceedings of the the 2nd Workshop on the Internet, Telecommunications and Signal Processing (WITSP’03) Coolangatta, Australia (December 2003) (7 p.). Copyright 2003, IEEE. Used by permission.

Abstract

This paper presents a new route update strategy for performing proactive route discovery in Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs). In this strategy, the rate at which route updates are sent into the network is controlled by how often a node changes its location by a required distance. We refer to this updating strategy as Minimum Displacement Update Routing (MDUR). We implemented MDUR on top of the Fisheye State Routing (FSR) protocol and investigated its performance by simulation. The simulations where performed in a number of different scenarios, with varied network mobility, density, traffic and boundary. Our results indicate that MDUR has lower levels of control overhead than FSR and achieves higher levels of throughput as the density and the level of traffic in the network is increased.