Award Date

1-1-2007

Degree Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Department

Computer Science

First Committee Member

Ajoy K. Datta

Number of Pages

63

Abstract

An ad hoc network is a collection of wireless mobile hosts forming a network without the aid of any established infrastructure or centralized administration. In such an environment, it may be necessary for one mobile host to enlist the aid of other hosts in forwarding a packet to its destination due to the limited range of each mobile host's wireless transmissions. Many protocols have been proposed to route packets between the hosts in such a network; The on-demand routing protocol is a well-known method. It establishes the routes and uses them only when a need arises. For wireless communication channels, the problem is further complicated by the mobility of the nodes, which induces structural changes in the routing. So, the mobility management of mobile nodes is important in mobile ad hoc networks; Clustering is a scheme to build a network control structure that increases network availability, reduces the delay in responding to changes in network state, and improves data security. It promotes more efficient use of resources in controlling large dynamic networks. Clustering is crucial for scalability as the performance can be improved by simply adding more nodes to the cluster; This thesis presents a protocol for routing in ad hoc networks that uses ad-hoc on-demand routing and also takes care of the mobility management. The protocol adapts quickly to frequent host movement, yet requires little or no overhead during periods in which hosts move less frequently. Moreover, the protocol routes packets through a dynamically established and nearly optimal path between two wireless nodes. We propose a self-organizing clustering protocol to store the routing data in multiple nodes and to distribute the routing load. It also achieves higher reliability---if a node in a cluster fails, the data is still accessible via other cluster nodes.

Keywords

Based; Cluster; Discovery; Protocol; Route

Controlled Subject

Computer science

File Format

pdf

File Size

1495.04 KB

Degree Grantor

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Language

English

Permissions

If you are the rightful copyright holder of this dissertation or thesis and wish to have the full text removed from Digital Scholarship@UNLV, please submit a request to digitalscholarship@unlv.edu and include clear identification of the work, preferably with URL.

Rights

IN COPYRIGHT. For more information about this rights statement, please visit http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Download


Share

COinS