Expressive Analytical Model for Routing Protocols in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Tae-Gook Jun, A. Dalton, Shreeshankar Bodas, Christine Julien, Sriram Vishwanath · 2008
Many routing protocols exist for mobile ad hoc networks. To select the most appropriate protocol, evaluation of candidate protocols must be performed with respect to a specific operating environment, which is not an easy task. However, selecting the best protocol can be a key factor in system behavior, determining whether the system successfully satisfies application requirements. Most of the relevant research in this area relies on simulation studies or empirical analysis to select a routing protocol, requiring an infeasible amount of time and resources for the approaches to be used in real-time decision making. In this paper we describe work toward analytically expressing protocol performance metrics in terms of environment-, protocol- , and application-dependent parameters. This work provides a foundation for adaptive protocol suites that will eventually enable an integrated context-aware communication paradigm.