Trial-number reset mechanism at MAC layer for mobile Ad Hoc networks

Dongkyun Kim, Hanseok Bae

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Abstract

MANET(Mobile Ad Hoc Networks) routing protocols definitely need a route maintenance process due to frequent route breakage caused by node mobility, which takes advantage of the MAC layer's handshaking service (RTS-CTS-DATA-ACK exchanged packet transmission is considered in this paper). Reaching the limited number of trial of packet transmission, namely retry-limit, before a reception of a corresponding ACK packet indicating a successful data transmission, is used to notify the routing protocol of a link breakage, that is, a route disconnection. The packet, therefore, is discarded and the source is accordingly requested to perform a route recovery with producing many flooded route discovery packets. However, since a reception of a CTS packet during the MAC layer's handshaking means an availability of route, the current number of trial used to detect a link breakage should not increase, but it should be reset to 0, instead. Furthermore, the absence of an ACK packet during a given ACK timeout after a successful reception of CTS packet should not increase the current number of trial for the same purpose. We show the performance improvement with this trial-number reset mechanism by using GloMoSim simulator with AODV routing protocol.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
EditorsMario M. Freire, Prosper Chemouil, Pascal Lorenz, Annie Gravey
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages237-246
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)3540235515
DOIs
StatePublished - 2004

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume3262
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

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