Integrated Wireless Communication Protocol for Ad-Hoc Mobile Networks
Tullio Facchinetti, Giorgio Buttazzo · 2004
Wireless ad-hoc networks have recently emerged as a relevant research topic. The management of ad hoc networks raises many interesting problems, and adding the mobility to the network’s components increases the number of these challenges. The approaches to the real-time communication among the network’s units should guarantee robustness, flexibility and scalability, while meeting the timing constraints on real-time messages. Our goal is to build an integrated communication framework suitable for ad-hoc networks of mobile units. The main features to achieve are: robustness, scalability, and dynamic configurability. In this paper we outline the main challenges to be solved and we propose our solutions. They are based on a set of integrated protocols focused on the management of the communication and the self-organization of the network. The main topics covered in the work are: the MAC protocol with real-time features, the cellular approach, the resource reservation, the management of the network topology and power-aware issues. 1