Topology control based on the group mobility model for mobile wireless mesh backbone networks

Topology Control has been shown to provide several benefits to wireless ad hoc and mesh networks. However these benefits have largely been demonstrated using simulation-based evaluations. In this paper, we demonstrate the negative impact that the PlainTC Topology Control prototype has on topology stability. This instability is found to be caused by the large number of transceiver power adjustments undertaken by the prototype. A context-based solution is offered to reduce the number of transceiver power adjustments undertaken without sacrificing the cumulative transceiver power savings and spatial reuse advantages gained from employing Topology Control in an infrastructure wireless mesh network. We propose the context-based PlainTC+ prototype and show that incorporating context information in the transceiver power adjustment process significantly reduces topology instability. In addition, improvements to network performance arising from the improved topology stability are also observed. Future plans to add real-time context-awareness to PlainTC+ will have the scheme being prototyped in a software-defined wireless mesh network test-bed being planned.

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MOMOSE: a mobility model simulation environment for mobile wireless ad-hoc networks

Proceedings of the First International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques for Communications Networks and Systems ◽

10.4108/icst.simutools2008.3036 ◽

2008 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Stefano Boschi ◽

Pilu Crescenzi ◽

Miriam Di Ianni ◽

Gianluca Rossi ◽

Paola Vocca

Keyword(s):

Ad Hoc Networks ◽

Wireless Ad Hoc Networks ◽

Ad Hoc ◽

Model Simulation ◽

Mobility Model ◽

Simulation Environment ◽

Mobile Wireless ◽

Hoc Networks

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Scheduling Strategies to Improve Reliability and Fairness for Priority Based Smart Rural Contention Based Applications Over Low-Cost Wireless Mesh Backbone Networks

E-Business and Telecommunications - Communications in Computer and Information Science ◽

10.1007/978-3-319-30222-5_24 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 511-532 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Sajid M. Sheikh ◽

Riaan Wolhuter ◽

Herman A. Engelbrecht

Keyword(s):

Low Cost ◽

Backbone Networks ◽

Wireless Mesh ◽

Scheduling Strategies ◽

Improve Reliability

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Layered Mobility Model Architecture - LEMMA

African Journal of Information & Communication Technology ◽

10.5130/ajict.v5i1.1122 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Alexander P Pelov ◽

Thomas Noel

Keyword(s):

Wireless Network ◽

Mobility Model ◽

Mobility Models ◽

Group Mobility ◽

Layered Architecture ◽

The Core ◽

Network Simulations

This paper presents the generic layered architecture for mobility models (LEMMA), which can be used to construct a wide variety of mobility models, including the majority of models used in wireless network simulations. The fundamental components of the architecture are described and analyzed, in addition to its benefits. One of the core principles stipulates that each mobility model is divided in five distinct layers that communicate via interfaces. This allows their easy replacement and recombination, which we support by reviewing 19 layers that can form 480 different mobility models. Some of the advanced features provided by the architecture are also discussed, such as layer aggregation, and creation of hybrid and group mobility models. Finally, some of the numerous existing studies of the different layers are presented.

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