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Evaluation of DHT optimized DSR for mobile ad hoc networks

AuthorBhattarai, Archana
Call NumberAIT Thesis no.ICT-07-10
Subject(s)Mobile communication systems
Ad hoc networks (Computer networks)

NoteA thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Engineering in Information & Communications Technologies, School of Engineering and Technology
PublisherAsian Institute of Technology
Series StatementThesis ; no. ICT-07-10
AbstractIn an ad hoc network topology with large number of nodes and traffic flows prevalent, currently existing protocols such as DSR and OLSR cannot perform well. Due to the lack of location information, the data packets have to be flooded in the whole network to find the destination. This introduces unnecessary traffic overhead in the system, exhibiting low packet delivery and low throughput which clearly demands for a scalable routing protocol. In response to these requirements, it is argued that peer-to-peer architectures like distributed hash tables (DHT) can be adopted as a scalable substrate to provide location-independent node identification and helps to decouple the identification with the physical address of the node. Thus an indirect routing system that offers a powerful and flexible communication abstraction can be implemented. However, along with the increase in scalability, this integration also introduces new challenges for the network architecture specification. In this thesis, we inspect the design issues related to DHT implementation in ad hoc networks. We make a survey of different proposals in the field and discuss the way in which DHT functionalities can be applied. Finally, based on our study, we propose and implement an algorithm for DHT integration and analyze the results compared to existing protocols. We implement pastry based DHT algorithm in popular reactive routing protocol, DSR in the network layer to implement prefix based route requesting instead of conventional flooding based route requesting. This highly reduces the control traffic overhead in large network thus showing better packet delivery and good throughput
Year2007
Corresponding Series Added EntryAsian Institute of Technology. Thesis ; no. ICT-07-10
TypeThesis
SchoolSchool of Engineering and Technology (SET)
DepartmentDepartment of Information and Communications Technologies (DICT)
Academic Program/FoSInformation and Communication Technology (ICT)
Chairperson(s)Kanchana Kanchansut;
Examination Committee(s)Crespi, Noel;Tsuchimoto, Yasuo;
Scholarship Donor(s)FINLAND;Asian Institute of Technology Fellowship;
DegreeThesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2007


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