TY - GEN
T1 - Design and implementation of two-tier mobile ad hoc networks with seamless roaming and load-balancing routing capability
AU - Hsu, Yuan Ying
AU - Tseng, Yu-Chee
AU - Tseng, Chien-Chao
AU - Huang, Chi Fu
AU - Fan, Jung Hsuan
AU - Wu, Hsiao Lu
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - Due to its flexibility, Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) has attracted a lot of attention recently. Most existing works, however, limit a MANET as a stand-alone network. In this paper, we propose a two-tier MANET by extending the connectivity of the MANET to the Internet. Some hosts in the MANET are equipped with cellular interfaces and are called gateways, which can provide Internet connections. Such extension would greatly improve the connectivity of MANET. To maintain seamless connectivity, we modify the Mobile IP to make traversing private networks (i.e., NAT) of cellular networks possible. We also propose a load-balancing routing protocol to utilize the cellular interfaces of gateways, which are likely to be bottlenecks to the Internet. A prototype is implemented and performance results obtained from the testbed is reported.
AB - Due to its flexibility, Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) has attracted a lot of attention recently. Most existing works, however, limit a MANET as a stand-alone network. In this paper, we propose a two-tier MANET by extending the connectivity of the MANET to the Internet. Some hosts in the MANET are equipped with cellular interfaces and are called gateways, which can provide Internet connections. Such extension would greatly improve the connectivity of MANET. To maintain seamless connectivity, we modify the Mobile IP to make traversing private networks (i.e., NAT) of cellular networks possible. We also propose a load-balancing routing protocol to utilize the cellular interfaces of gateways, which are likely to be bottlenecks to the Internet. A prototype is implemented and performance results obtained from the testbed is reported.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=19644365672&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/QSHINE.2004.18
DO - 10.1109/QSHINE.2004.18
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:19644365672
SN - 0769522335
T3 - Proceedings - First International Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks, QShine 2004
SP - 52
EP - 58
BT - Proceedings - First International Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks, QShine 2004
A2 - Boukerche, A.
A2 - Cobb, J.
A2 - Chen, S.
A2 - Fang, M.Y.
T2 - Proceedings - First International Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks, QShine 2004
Y2 - 18 October 2004 through 20 October 2004
ER -