Exploiting congestion information in network and higher layer protocols in multihop wireless ad hoc networks

@inproceedings{citeulike:258854, abstract = {With most routing protocols for ad hoc networks, shorter paths are generally considered more desirable, making some areas of network more prone to congestion and decreasing overall network throughput. We examine the use of congestion information to avoid these network hotspots. By locally monitoring the network interface transmission queue length and MAC layer behavior at each node, a node can establish an approximation of the degree to which the wireless medium around it is busy; this measurement reflects not only the behavior of the node itself, but also the behavior of other nearby nodes sharing the wireless medium. We suggest a number of uses of such congestion information in an ad hoc network, in the network, transport, and higher layers, and we evaluate a set of such uses through simulation. Our results based on modifications to the dynamic source routing protocol (DSR) and TCP demonstrate substantial performance improvement in terms of scalability, packet delivery, overhead, and fairness resulting from this use of congestion information.}, author = {Hu, Y. C. and Johnson, D. B. }, citeulike-article-id = {258854}, journal = {Distributed Computing Systems, 2004. Proceedings. 24th International Conference on}, keywords = {congestion, manet, mesh-networks, qos, routing}, pages = {301--310}, posted-at = {2006-10-19 15:53:35}, priority = {3}, title = {Exploiting congestion information in network and higher layer protocols in multihop wireless ad hoc networks}, url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs\_all.jsp?arnumber=1281595}, year = {2004} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:258854 L3 - citeulike-article-id:258854 N2 - With most routing protocols for ad hoc networks, shorter paths are generally considered more desirable, making some areas of network more prone to congestion and decreasing overall network throughput. We examine the use of congestion information to avoid these network hotspots. By locally monitoring the network interface transmission queue length and MAC layer behavior at each node, a node can establish an approximation of the degree to which the wireless medium around it is busy; this measurement reflects not only the behavior of the node itself, but also the behavior of other nearby nodes sharing the wireless medium. We suggest a number of uses of such congestion information in an ad hoc network, in the network, transport, and higher layers, and we evaluate a set of such uses through simulation. Our results based on modifications to the dynamic source routing protocol (DSR) and TCP demonstrate substantial performance improvement in terms of scalability, packet delivery, overhead, and fairness resulting from this use of congestion information. JF - Distributed Computing Systems, 2004. Proceedings. 24th International Conference on EP - 310 TI - Exploiting congestion information in network and higher layer protocols in multihop wireless ad hoc networks SP - 301 KW - congestion KW - manet KW - mesh-networks KW - qos KW - routing AU - Hu, YC AU - Johnson, DB PY - 2004/// UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1281595 ER -