TY - GEN
T1 - Generalizing Wireless Ad Hoc Routing for Future Edge Applications
AU - Rosa, André
AU - Costa, Pedro Ákos
AU - Leitão, João
N1 - info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UIDB%2F04516%2F2020/PT#
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/3599-PPCDT/PTDC%2FCCI-INF%2F32038%2F2017/PT#
PY - 2022/2/8
Y1 - 2022/2/8
N2 - Wireless ad hoc networks are becoming increasingly relevant due to their suitability for Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications. These networks are comprised of devices that communicate directly with each other through the wireless medium. In applications deployed over a large area, each device is unable to directly contact all others, and thus they must cooperate to achieve multi-hop communication. The essential service for this is Routing, which is crucial for most applications and services in multi-hop ad hoc networks. Although many wireless routing protocols have been proposed, no single protocol is deemed the most suitable for all scenarios. Therefore, it is crucial to identify the key differences and similarities between protocols to better compare, combine, or dynamically elect which one to use in different settings and conditions. However, identifying such key similarities and distinctions is challenging due to highly heterogeneous specifications and assumptions. In this paper, we propose a conceptual framework for specifying routing protocols for wireless ad hoc networks, which abstracts their common elements and that can be parameterized to capture the behavior of particular instances of existing protocols. Furthermore, since many wireless ad hoc routing protocols lack systematic experimental evaluation on real networks, we leverage an implementation of our framework to conduct an experimental evaluation of several representative protocols using commodity devices.
AB - Wireless ad hoc networks are becoming increasingly relevant due to their suitability for Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications. These networks are comprised of devices that communicate directly with each other through the wireless medium. In applications deployed over a large area, each device is unable to directly contact all others, and thus they must cooperate to achieve multi-hop communication. The essential service for this is Routing, which is crucial for most applications and services in multi-hop ad hoc networks. Although many wireless routing protocols have been proposed, no single protocol is deemed the most suitable for all scenarios. Therefore, it is crucial to identify the key differences and similarities between protocols to better compare, combine, or dynamically elect which one to use in different settings and conditions. However, identifying such key similarities and distinctions is challenging due to highly heterogeneous specifications and assumptions. In this paper, we propose a conceptual framework for specifying routing protocols for wireless ad hoc networks, which abstracts their common elements and that can be parameterized to capture the behavior of particular instances of existing protocols. Furthermore, since many wireless ad hoc routing protocols lack systematic experimental evaluation on real networks, we leverage an implementation of our framework to conduct an experimental evaluation of several representative protocols using commodity devices.
KW - Framework
KW - IoT
KW - Routing
KW - Wireless Ad Hoc
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85125238678&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-94822-1_15
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-94822-1_15
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85125238678
SN - 978-3-030-94821-4
T3 - Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
SP - 264
EP - 279
BT - Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services
A2 - Hara, T.
A2 - Yamaguchi, H.
PB - Springer
CY - Cham
T2 - 18th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services, MobiQuitous 2021
Y2 - 8 November 2021 through 11 November 2021
ER -