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Performance Study of Proactive Flow Handoff for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

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A Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) is a collection of wireless mobile computers forming a temporary network without any existing wire line infrastructure. Searching for feasible paths, or routing, is very challenging in mobile ad hoc networks because of frequent topology changes caused by users' mobility. Location information is required by some applications and can be used to facilitate routing implementation. In this paper, we propose a proactive flow handoff method based on nodes' location information. In summary, location information is utilised to reduce the control overhead in route discovery phase, to search quickly for a feasible path upon link breakage, and to hand off a flow to a stable path if the active one breaks based on predication. Keeping “always-on” end-to-end connectivity once a flow is established is the main advantage of this routing method. A thorough simulation study is performed to demonstrate the efficiency of this method.

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  1. Computer Science Department, University of Victoria, BC, Canada, V8W 3P6

    Kui Wu

  2. Computing Science Department, University of Alberta, AB, Canada, T6G 2E8

    Janelle Harms

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This research was supported by a grant from the Canadian Institute for Telecommunications Research under the NCE program of the Government of Canada.

Kui Wu received his Ph.D in Computing Science from the University of Alberta, Canada, in 2002. He joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Victoria, Canada in the same year and is currently an Assistant Professor there. His research interests include mobile and wireless networks, network performance evaluation, and network security.

Janelle Harms received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada working in the area of performance analysis of resource allocation mechanisms. She joined the Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta in 1991 and is currently an Associate Professor there. Her research interests include performance aspects of network resource allocation, routing and design problems.

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Wu, K., Harms, J. Performance Study of Proactive Flow Handoff for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. Wireless Netw 12, 119–135 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-006-6155-8

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