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Distributed Location Service with Spatial Awareness for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Shyr-Kuen CHEN, Tay-Yu CHEN, Pi-Chung WANG

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A mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) consists of a collection of wireless mobile nodes without any fixed network infrastructure. Since the mobile nodes form a constantly changing topology, the design of efficient and scalable routing protocols is a fundamental challenge in MANETs. In the current literature, position-based routing protocols are regarded as having better scalability and lower control overhead than topology-based routing protocols. Since location services are the most critical part of position-based routing protocols, we present a multi-home-region scheme, Distributed Virtual Home Region with Spatial Awareness (DVHR-SA), to improve the performance of location service in this paper. Our scheme adaptively selects different update and query procedures according to the location of a source node. The simulation results show that DVHR-SA shortens the lengths of the update, query and reply paths. Our scheme also reduces the overall network message overhead. Therefore, DVHR-SA is considerably fast and stable.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E93-B No.12 pp.3400-3408
Publication Date
2010/12/01
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Online ISSN
1745-1345
DOI
10.1587/transcom.E93.B.3400
Type of Manuscript
Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Wireless Distributed Networks)
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