A Scalable and Reliable Multicast Routing Protocol for Ad-hoc Wireless Networks

Multicasting is an essential service for ad-hoc wireless networks. In a multicasting environment with multiple senders, receivers or meeting members, traditional multicast routing protocols must pay great overhead for multiple multicast sessions. This work presents a scalable and reliable multicasting protocol for ad-hoc wireless networks. A virtual backbone is used as a shared structure for multiple sessions. A clustering scheme is used to reduce the routing path length. A novel scheme is developed to effectively multicast packets using forwarding gates. Furthermore, a lost packet recovery scheme is developed for reliable packet transmission. This scheme can be used to improve the reliability of traditional non-acknowledged multicasting approach. Experiments were conducted to evaluate the proposed multicasting scheme and the results demonstrate that our scheme outperforms other schemes in terms of packet delivery ratio, packet delivery time, control overhead, multicast efficiency, and cost effect. Furthermore, our approach is stable for networks with high mobility and the lost packet recovery scheme is cost-effective. Chyi-Ren Dow was born in 1962. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in information engineering from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, in 1984 and 1988, respectively, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Pittsburgh, USA, in 1992 and 1994, respectively. Currently, he is a Professor in the Department of Information Engineering, Feng Chia University, Taiwan. His research interests include mobile computing, ad-hoc wireless networks, agent techniques, fault tolerance, and learning technology. Jyh-Horng Lin was born in 1975. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in information engineering from Feng Chia University, Taiwan, in 1998 and 2000, respectively. He is currently a candidate for the Ph.D. degree in the Department of Information Engineering, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan. His research interests include mobile computing and ad-hoc wireless networks. Kun-Tai Chen was born in 1978. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in information engineering from Feng Chia University, Taiwan, in 2000 and 2002, respectively. He is currently an engineer in the VIA technologies, Inc. Hsinchu branch, Taiwan. His research interests include mobile computing, ad-hoc wireless networks and video decoding. Sheng-Chang Chen was born in 1979. He received his B.S. degree and M.S. degree in information engineering from Feng Chia University, Taiwan, in 2001 and 2002. He is currently a Ph.D. degree in information engineering from Feng Chia University, Taiwan. His research interests include mobile computing, ad-hoc wireless network and fault tolerance technique. Shiow-Fen Hwang was born in 1963. She received her B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Mathematics from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, in 1985, 1987 and 1991, respectively. Currently, she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Engineering, Feng Chia University, Taiwan. Her research interests include interconnection networks, mobile computing, and computer algorithms.     

RPSF: A Routing Protocol with Selective Forwarding for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks

Many existing reactive routing algorithms for mobile ad-hoc networks use a simple broadcasting mechanism for route discovery which can lead to a high redundancy of route-request messages, contention, and collision. Position-based routing algorithms address this problem but require every node to know the position and velocity of every other node at some point in time so that route requests can be propagated towards the destination without flooding the entire network. In a general ad-hoc network, each node maintaining the position information of every other node is expensive or impossible. In this paper, we propose a routing algorithm that addresses these drawbacks. Our algorithm, based on one-hop neighborhood information, allows each node to select a subset of its neighbors to forward route requests. This algorithm greatly reduces the number of route-request packets transmitted in the route-discovery process. We compare the performance of our algorithm with the well known Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector (AODV) routing algorithm. On average, our algorithm needs less than 12.6% of the routing-control packets needed by AODV. Simulation results also show that our algorithm has a higher packet-delivery ratio and lower average end-to-end delay than AODV.     

Ad Hoc多播路由协议研究与实现

文中研究了一种基于分割树的移动Ad Hoc网络（MANET）多播路由协议（TPBOM）,该协议中,信源基于成员节点的定位信息创建一个Steiner树覆盖图,为满足可扩展性的要求,信源利用最大权反向分割（MHRTP）的树分割算法将其分割为若干个区,并将每个区封装进一个树分发数据包中,以便将所创建的Steiner树分发至所有成员节点,封装的数据包中不包含目的地址列表,数据则沿该Steiner树进行传输,仿真实现表明,TPBOM在可扩展的多播群中获得了较高的性能。     

基于泛洪约束的MANET按需组播路由协议

降低路由控制开销是MANET网络组播路由协议节省节点能量,提高带宽利用率的关键因素之一。本文研究了组播路径近邻节点对路由维护的作用以及链路的连通性,分别提出了一个新的泛k-洪约束算法和一个混合泛洪模式。基于泛k-洪约束算法和混合泛洪模式,提出一个新的按需组播路由协议ODMRP-CF,ODMRP-CF协议通过选择k-路由近邻节点转发泛洪分组来提高泛洪效率。ODMRP-CF协议不仅保持了ODMRP协议所具有的简单,对节点移动鲁棒性好的优点,而且有效地降低了ODMRP-CF协议的控制开销。     

A Power-Aware Multicast Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks With Mobility Prediction

A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a dynamically reconfigurable wireless network that does not have a fixed infrastructure. Due to the high mobility of nodes, the network topology of MANETs changes very fast, making it more difficult to find the routes that message packets use. Because mobile nodes have limited battery power, it is therefore very important to use energy in a MANET efficiently. In this paper, we propose a power-aware multicast routing protocol (PMRP) with mobility prediction for MANETs. In order to select a subset of paths that provide increased stability and reliability of routes, in routing discovery, each node receives the RREQ packet and uses the power-aware metric to get in advance the power consumption of transmitted data packets. If the node has enough remaining power to transmit data packets, it uses the global positioning system (GPS) to get the location information (i.e., position, velocity and direction) of the mobile nodes and utilizes this information to calculate the link expiration time (LET) between two connected mobile nodes. During route discovery, each destination node selects the routing path with the smallest LET and uses this smallest link expiration time as the route expiration time (RET). Each destination node collects several feasible routes and then selects the path with the longest RET value as the primary routing path. Then the source node uses these routes between the source node and each destination node to create a multicast tree. In the multicast tree, the source node will be the root node and the destination nodes will be the leaf nodes. Simulation results show that the proposed PMRP outperforms MAODV (Royer, E. M. & Perkins, C. E. (1999). In Proceedings of the ACM MOBICOM, pp. 207–218, August 1999.) and RMAODV (Baolin, S. & Layuan, L. (2005). In Proceeding of the 2005 IEEE International symposium on microwave antenna, propagation and EMC technologies for wireless communications, Vol. 2, pp. 1514–1517, August 2005.).     

QM2RP: A QoS-Based Mobile Multicast Routing Protocol Using Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm

With the increasing demand for real-time services in next generation wireless networks, quality-of-service (QoS) based routing offers significant challenges. Multimedia applications, such as video conferencing or real-time streaming of stock quotes, require strict QoS guarantee on bandwidth and delay parameters while communicating among multiple hosts. These applications give rise to the need for efficient multicast routing protocols, which will be able to determine multicast routes that satisfy different QoS constraints simultaneously. However, designing such protocols for optimizing multiple objectives, is computationally intractable. Precisely, discovering optimal multicast routes is an NP-hard problem when the network state information is inaccurate – a common scenario in wireless networks. Based on the multi-objective genetic algorithm (MOGA), in this paper we propose a QoS-based mobile multicast routing protocol (QM²RP) that determines near-optimal routes on demand. Our protocol attempts to optimize multiple QoS parameters, namely end-to-end delay, bandwidth requirements, and residual bandwidth utilization. Furthermore, it is fast and efficient in tackling dynamic multicast group membership information arising due to user mobility in wireless cellular networks. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed protocol is capable of discovering a set of QoS-based, near-optimal multicast routes within a few iterations, even with imprecise network information. Among these routes one can choose the best possible one depending on the specified QoS requirements. The protocol is also scalable and yields lower multicast call-blocking rates for dynamic multicast group size in large networks.     

链路可靠的无线传感器网络组播路由协议

在无线传感器网络实际应用中,组播正在发挥着越来越重要的作用.但由于能量等多方面的因素,使得为无线传感器网络设计一个有效的组播路由是非常困难的.针对无线传感器网络中节点的能量限制,通过寻求节点间最短路径,提出一种能量有效的链路可靠组播路由协议(RLMR).该协议充分考虑到网络中节点的能耗因素和两节点间的链路可靠性等,通过对这两个因素的综合考虑,让能量较多并且以发送节点更靠近的节点承担更多传输任务的方式,为数据流优化路由选择,均衡无线传感器网络节点的能量消耗,以延长网络的生存时间.仿真结果证明了RLMR的有效性和可靠性.     

On-Demand Multicast Routing Protocol in Multihop Wireless Mobile Networks

An ad hoc network is a dynamically reconfigurable wireless network with no fixed infrastructure or central administration. Each host is mobile and must act as a router. Routing and multicasting protocols in ad hoc networks are faced with the challenge of delivering data to destinations through multihop routes in the presence of node movements and topology changes. This paper presents the On-Demand Multicast Routing Protocol (ODMRP) for wireless mobile ad hoc networks. ODMRP is a mesh-based, rather than a conventional tree-based, multicast scheme and uses a forwarding group concept; only a subset of nodes forwards the multicast packets via scoped flooding. It applies on-demand procedures to dynamically build routes and maintain multicast group membership. ODMRP is well suited for ad hoc wireless networks with mobile hosts where bandwidth is limited, topology changes frequently, and power is constrained. We evaluate ODMRP performance with other multicast protocols proposed for ad hoc networks via extensive and detailed simulation.     

Ad hoc网络基于协同的可靠组播丢失恢复算法设计

在Ad hoc网络中保证组播通信的可靠性要面对Ad hoc网络高误码率、带宽受限、节点能量有限和拓扑结构频繁变化等技术挑战。该文将协同的思想引入到组播丢失恢复设计中,设计了新的基于协同的可靠组播丢失恢复算法(CoreRM)。根据各个节点经历的不同丢失情况,通过自适应选择本地恢复、全局恢复或发送端恢复,分布式地处理整个网络的丢失恢复。CoreRM还设计了恢复路径缓存、NAK抑制机制,以及源路由数据包(SPM)发送机制来应对Ad hoc网络中的拓扑变化。性能分析和NS2的仿真实验表明相对于UDP和PGM可靠组播通信,CoreRM算法可以在网络吞吐量和丢失恢复延时方面有显著性能改善。     

An Efficient Multicast Routing Protocol in Wireless Mobile Networks

Providing multicast service to mobile hosts in wireless mobile networking environments is difficult due to frequent changes of mobile host location and group membership. If a conventional multicast routing protocol is used in wireless mobile networks, several problems may be experienced since existing multicast routing protocols assume static hosts when they construct the multicast delivery tree. To overcome the problems, several multicast routing protocols for mobile hosts have been proposed. Although the protocols solve several problems inherent in multicast routing proposals for static hosts, they still have problems such as non-optimal delivery path, datagram duplication, overheads resulting from frequent reconstruction of a multicast tree, etc. In this paper, we summarize these problems of multicast routing protocols and propose an efficient multicast routing protocol based on IEFT mobile IP in wireless mobile networks. The proposed protocol introduces a multicast agent, where a mobile host receives a tunneled multicast datagram from a multicast agent located in a network close to it or directly from the multicast router in the current network. While receiving a tunneled multicast datagram from a remote multicast agent, the local multicast agent may start multicast join process, which makes the multicast delivery route optimal. The proposed protocol reduces data delivery path length and decreases the amount of duplicate copies of multicast datagrams. We examined and compared the performance of the proposed protocol and existing protocols by simulation under various environments and we got an improved performance over the existing proposals.     

A Constraint Formulation for Minimum-Energy Multicast Routing in Wireless Multihop Ad-hoc Networks

Energy conservation is a critical issue in wireless multihop ad-hoc networks, which have nodes powered by batteries only. One major metric for energy conservation is to route a communication session along the routes that require the lowest total energy consumption. To do this, we introduce in this paper a new concept called Virtual Relay. Based on this new concept, we present a constraint formulation for the minimum-energy multicast routing problem in terms of mixed integer linear programming. Experiment results show that in a typical multihop ad-hoc network with 50 nodes, the optimal solutions can always be solved in a timely manner, and it also provides a way to evaluate the realistic performance of different heuristic algorithms. Song Guo received the B.S. degree in computer science from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in 1995 and the M.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China, in 1998. Since 2001 he has been a Ph.D. student in the School of Information Technology and Engineering at University of Ottawa, Canada. His main research interests lie in mobile ad-hoc routing protocols and algorithms, power-aware design and optimization for ad-hoc wireless networks, and performance evaluation. Oliver Yang is a Professor in the School of Information Technology and Engineering at University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Yang received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Ont., Canada in 1988. He has worked for Northern Telecom Canada Ltd. and has done various consulting. His research interests are in modeling, analysis and performance evaluation of computer communication networks, their protocols, services and interconnection architectures. The CCNR Lab under his leadership has been working on various projects in the traffic control, traffic characterization, switch architecture and traffic engineering issues in both wireless and photonic networks. This has been reported in more than 200 technical papers. Dr. Yang is also interested in queuing theory, simulations, computational algorithms and their applications such as reliability and traffic analysis. Dr. Yang is currently the editor of IEEE Communication Magazine.     

移动自组网中基于预测的路由协议研究

由于移动自组网中的节点可以任意的运动，导致网络中传输路径的频繁断裂，大量的重路由操作降低了网络性能，并占用了有限的网络资源。而基于预测的路由协议能够有效地减少网络拓扑结构的变化对于路由操作的影响。文章主要讨论了目前已经提出的几种节点运动预测方案．以及基于预测的路由协议，并提出了进一步的研究方向。     

一种节省能量的移动Ad Hoc网络组播选路协议

鉴于现有基于网孔的移动Ad Hoc网络组播选路协议都滑考虑如何有效使用电池能量的问题，本文提出了一种节省能量组播选路协议（E^2MRP),E^2MRP协议的两个主要特征是：（1）在创建和维护中继组（RG）的过程中交替采用分组平均能量消耗最少和最大节点花费最小两种标准，（2）采用基于图的组播结构，本文通过仿真分析大大降低了节点的能量消耗，特别是在节移动性较低，组播成员较少时更是如此。     

一种WDM疏导网络动态组播路由算法

对无波长变换能力的波分复用（WDM）疏导网络中的组播路由和波长分配（MRWA）问题进行了研究，提出了动态组播流量疏导算法（DMTGA）。这种算法根据当前网络资源使用情况，结合流量疏导和负载均衡，对链路权重进行动态配置，构建满足组播业务请求带宽需求的组播树。在不同的网络负载下对算法进行仿真，对比分析了DMTGA对业务请求接入率、平均网络资源利用率和全网负载分布的影响。     

GMZRP: Geography-aided Multicast Zone Routing Protocol in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

This paper presents the design and evaluation of a highly efficient on-demand multicast routing protocol for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). The protocol, called Geography-aided Multicast Zone Routing Protocol (GMZRP), eliminates as much as possible duplicate route queries by using a simple yet effective strategy for propagating the multicast route request (MRREQ) packets. GMZRP is the first hybrid multicast protocol taking the advantages of both topological routing and geographical routing. It partitions the network coverage area into small zones and guarantees that each geographic zone is queried only once. GMZRP maintains a multicast forwarding tree at two levels of granularities, i.e., the zone granularity and the node granularity. By doing this, it can easily handle route breakage since the zone level information can help recover the link failure at the node level. The results of the performance evaluation of GMZRP using simulation show that, comparing with the well-known multicast protocol ODMRP (On-Demand Multicast Routing Protocol), GMZRP has much lower protocol overhead in terms of query packets and, meanwhile, achieves competing packet delivery ratio and shorter delivery latency.

Integrated Routing and Storage for Messaging Applications in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

This paper is motivated by the observation that traditional ad hoc routing protocols are not an adequate solution for messaging applications (e.g., e-mail) in mobile ad hoc networks. Routing in ad hoc mobile networks is challenging mainly because of node mobility – the more rapid the rate of movement, the greater the fraction of bad routes and undelivered messages. For applications that can tolerate delays beyond conventional forwarding delays, we advocate a relay-based approach to be used in conjunction with traditional ad hoc routing protocols. This approach takes advantage of node mobility to disseminate messages to mobile nodes. The result is the Mobile Relay Protocol (MRP), which integrates message routing and storage in the network; the basic idea is that if a route to a destination is unavailable, a node performs a controlled local broadcast (a relay) to its immediate neighbors. In a network with sufficient mobility – precisely the situation when conventional routes are likely to be non-existent or broken – it is quite likely that one of the relay nodes to which the packet has been relayed will encounter a node that has a valid, short (conventional) route to the eventual destination, thereby increasing the likelihood that the message will be successfully delivered. Our simulation results under a variety of node movement models demonstrate that this idea can work well for applications that prefer reliability over latency.     

移动Ad hoc网络中基于链路稳定性预测的按需路由协议

移动Ad hoc网络拓扑的高度动态变化是造成传统按需路由协议的路由频繁通断的主要原因,因此在传统按需路由协议的基础上进行链路稳定性预测扩展,增强路由稳定性具有十分重要的意义。该文利用分组的接收功率把节点间的相对运动划分为靠近和远离两种类型,然后在不同相对运动类型下根据节点间距离得到了的链路平均维持时间。在路由过程中,中间节点利用得到的链路平均维持时间设置请求报文的转发延迟,通过一定转发规则选择稳定性较强的链路构成路径。仿真结果表明进行链路稳定性预测扩展后的按需路由协议能够有效增强路由的稳定性,并提高网络性能。     

基于Grover搜索算法的MANET网络路由协议

In Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MA-NETs), routing protocols directly affect various indices of network Quality of Service (QoS), so they play an important role in network performance. To address the drawbacks associated with traditional routing protocols in MANETs, such as poor anti-fading perfor-mance and slow convergence rate, for basic Dynamic Source Routing (DSR), we propose a new routing model based on Grover’s sear-ching algorithm. With this new routing model, each node maintains a node vector function, and all the nodes can obtain a node probability vector using Grover’s algorithm, and then select an optimal routing according to node probability. Simulation results show that compared with DSR, this new routing protocol can effectively extend the network lifetime, as well as reduce the network delay and the number of routing hops. It can also significantly improve the anti-jamming capa-bility of the network.     

移动自组织网络预测分簇算法的路由协议

针对移动自组织网络中传统分簇算法存在稳定性低、网络开销大的问题,在WCA分簇算法的基础上,提出一种带有预测机制的EWCA-MP(Efficient on-demand Weighted Clustering Algorithm using Mobility Prediction)分簇算法,该算法在簇头选择时充分考虑节点间的链路保持时间,在簇维护阶段引入模糊逻辑的概念,对Hello消息包的广播周期进行优化。并将其应用于CBRP中,提出了一种ECBRP-MP(Efficient Cluster Based Routing Protocol using Mobility Prediction)移动预测的分簇路由协议。仿真结果表明,EWCA-MP算法在簇头数目、单位时间内节点转移次数和统治集更新次数明显减少,ECBRP-MP路由协议在路由开销、分组投递率的性能得到优化。