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Acquaintance based soft location management (ABSLM) in MANET

by: J Ghosh, SJ Philip, C Qiao
Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2004. WCNC. 2004 IEEE, Vol. 1 (2004), pp. 166-171 Vol.1.


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A major challenge faced in mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) is locating the devices for communication, especially with high node mobility and sparse node density. Present solutions provided by the ad hoc routing protocols range from flooding the entire network with route requests, to deploying a separate location management scheme to maintain a device location database. In this work, we propose a novel scheme called acquaintance based soft location management (ABSLM) in MANET. In ABSLM, nodes make use of the real life concept of making acquaintances and keeping in touch with them regarding each other's current locations. ABSLM has a two-fold aim: to avoid the overhead of flooding: and to use a 'soft' location management setup that does not require a strict location management strategies and is thus computationally less expensive than the standard 'hard' location management schemes. Simulation results show that the ABSLM not only outperforms the existing flooding schemes in terms of throughput, overhead and location discovery latency, but also achieves a performance comparable to 'hard' grid based location management schemes with a much lower control overhead.


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