Adaptive Rerouting to Avoid Local Congestion in MANETs
Kiyotaka Kaji, Takuya Yoshihiro · 2017
MANET (Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks) is useful in many practical scenarios since it provides multi-hop communication without wired infrastructure. However, there is a problem that the communication performance of a flow may be easily degraded by even a single local congestion on the whole path. A solution for the problem is to use a detour path that avoids the local congestion. However, to this end, the detour paths should not use the nodes in the congested area, which is in fact relatively large due to the nature of radio waves. In the current state of the art, we do not have such alternative-path computation algorithms. In this paper, we propose an algorithm and a routing scheme to compute and utilize detour paths adaptively according to the network traffic conditions. Through evaluation, we show that the proposed scheme improve the communication performance by using the detour paths in practical network scenarios.