Topology-aware group communication middleware for MANETs
Pedro López, Raúl Gracia, Marc Espelt, Gerard Parı́s, Marcel Arrufat, Roc Meseguer · 2009
We believe that any MANET middleware should be aware of the underlying multi-hop routing protocol to improve communication efficiency. In general, existing MANET middleware either ignore the underlying routing protocol or create specific cross-layer solutions that break the strict layering of the network stack. This problem is even more severe in the case of traditional group communication middleware (GC) where membership protocols, failure detection mechanisms or flow control layers can considerably harm the overall performance of the network.