SIP based Service Provisioning for hybrid MANETs
Marcel Cavalcanti de Castro · 2007
Traditional Voice over IP (VoIP) systems is based on client/server architecture, which is not applicable to Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs), which are a decentralized collection of autonomous nodes. However, internet connectivity for MANETs becomes important as internet connected MANETs can serve as hot spot extension in 4G scenarios. Here, MANET nodes can reach any wired node thus potentially registering with SIP proxies in the fixed network becomes a viable solution. In order to study the implications of using VoIP systems in internet connected MANETs we present in this paper simulation result of SIP service scalability when centralized proxies/registrars located in the Access Network are used by MANET nodes. Alternative approaches to provide SIP services in such environment are also discussed to improve performance