Research Article
A peer-to-peer overlay approach for emergency mobile ad hoc network based multimedia communications
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.MOBIMEDIA2009.7860, author={Grant P. Millar and Tipu A. Ramrekha and Christos Politis}, title={A peer-to-peer overlay approach for emergency mobile ad hoc network based multimedia communications}, proceedings={Secure and reliable multimedia communications and coordination for Emergency Services in heterogeneous wireless networks}, publisher={ACM}, proceedings_a={PEACE}, year={2010}, month={5}, keywords={Ad hoc networking peer-to-peer overlays emergency}, doi={10.4108/ICST.MOBIMEDIA2009.7860} }- Grant P. Millar
Tipu A. Ramrekha
Christos Politis
Year: 2010
A peer-to-peer overlay approach for emergency mobile ad hoc network based multimedia communications
PEACE
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.MOBIMEDIA2009.7860
Abstract
Overlay networks are located on top of the physical network and are generally favored for the implementation of peer-to-peer (P2P) networks providing services such as voice over IP (VoIP) communications. The operation of the overlay network results in the creation of routing data packets in the network layer. This paper considers the possibility of employing an overlay network for the Mobile Ad hoc NETwork (MANET) architecture in the intention of deploying a P2P network service for extreme emergency cases as described in the EU-FP7 PEACE project. The structured overlay network for the underlying MANET network, proposed in this paper, is built on Bamboo [12] which has been proven to be more efficient than other methods in literature. A study is carried out, using the network simulator ns-2, in order to demonstrate that the proposed enhanced overlay solution has less overhead, and that it has the potential to be used in MANETs for reliable data routing.