MANETKit: Supporting the dynamic deployment and reconfiguration of Ad-Hoc routing protocols

Rajiv Ramdhany; Paul Grace; Geoff Coulson; David Hutchison

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-10445-9_1

MANETKit: Supporting the dynamic deployment and reconfiguration of Ad-Hoc routing protocols

Rajiv Ramdhany^*, Paul Grace, Geoff Coulson, David Hutchison

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Middleware 2009
Subtitle of host publication	ACM/IFIP/USENIX 10th International Middleware Conference, Proceedings
Publisher	Springer
Pages	1-20
Number of pages	20
ISBN (Print)	3642104444, 9783642104442
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10445-9_1
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2009
Event	ACM/IFIP/USENIX 10th International Middleware Conference - Urbana, IL, United States Duration: 30 Nov 2009 → 4 Dec 2009

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	5896 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Conference	ACM/IFIP/USENIX 10th International Middleware Conference
Country/Territory	United States
City	Urbana, IL
Period	30/11/09 → 4/12/09

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Ad-hoc routing
Protocol frameworks

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Ramdhany, R., Grace, P., Coulson, G., & Hutchison, D. (2009). MANETKit: Supporting the dynamic deployment and reconfiguration of Ad-Hoc routing protocols. In Middleware 2009: ACM/IFIP/USENIX 10th International Middleware Conference, Proceedings (pp. 1-20). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 5896 LNCS). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10445-9_1

Ramdhany, Rajiv ; Grace, Paul ; Coulson, Geoff et al. / MANETKit : Supporting the dynamic deployment and reconfiguration of Ad-Hoc routing protocols. Middleware 2009: ACM/IFIP/USENIX 10th International Middleware Conference, Proceedings. Springer, 2009. pp. 1-20 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Ramdhany, R, Grace, P, Coulson, G & Hutchison, D 2009, MANETKit: Supporting the dynamic deployment and reconfiguration of Ad-Hoc routing protocols. in Middleware 2009: ACM/IFIP/USENIX 10th International Middleware Conference, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 5896 LNCS, Springer, pp. 1-20, ACM/IFIP/USENIX 10th International Middleware Conference, Urbana, IL, United States, 30/11/09. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10445-9_1

MANETKit: Supporting the dynamic deployment and reconfiguration of Ad-Hoc routing protocols. / Ramdhany, Rajiv; Grace, Paul; Coulson, Geoff et al.
Middleware 2009: ACM/IFIP/USENIX 10th International Middleware Conference, Proceedings. Springer, 2009. p. 1-20 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 5896 LNCS).

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Ramdhany R, Grace P, Coulson G, Hutchison D. MANETKit: Supporting the dynamic deployment and reconfiguration of Ad-Hoc routing protocols. In Middleware 2009: ACM/IFIP/USENIX 10th International Middleware Conference, Proceedings. Springer. 2009. p. 1-20. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-10445-9_1

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