Design And Analysis Of An Integrated Mac And Routing Protocol Framework For Large Scale Multi Hop Wireless Sensor Networks

Practical design and performance solutions for every ad hoc wireless network Ad Hoc Wireless Networks comprise mobile devices that use wireless transmission for communication. They can be set up anywhere and any time because they eliminate the complexities of infrastructure setup and central administration-and they have enormous commercial and military potential. Now, there's a book that addresses every major issue related to their design and performance. Ad Hoc Wireless Networks: Architectures and Protocols presents state-of-the-art techniques and solutions, and supports them with easy-to-understand examples. The book starts off with the fundamentals of wireless networking (wireless PANs, LANs, MANs, WANs, and wireless Internet) and goes on to address such current topics as Wi-Fi networks, optical wireless networks, and hybrid wireless architectures. Coverage includes: Medium access control, routing, multicasting, and transport protocols QoS provisioning, energy management, security, multihop pricing, and much more In-depth discussion of wireless sensor networks and ultra wideband technology More than 200 examples and end-of-chapter problems Ad Hoc Wireless Networks is an invaluable resource for every network engineer, technical manager, and researcher designing or building ad hoc wireless networks.

This book explores the optimization potential of cross-layer design approaches for wireless ad hoc and sensor network performance, covering both theory and practice. A theoretical section provides an overview of design issues in both strictly layered and cross-layer approaches. A practical section builds on these issues to explore three case studies of diverse ad hoc and sensor network applications and communication technologies.

The focus of this brief is to identify what unifies and what distinguishes the routing functions in four wireless multi-hop network paradigms. The brief introduces a generic routing model that can be used as a foundation of wireless multi-hop routing protocol analysis and design. It demonstrates that such model can be adopted by any wireless multi-hop routing protocol. Also presented is a glimpse of the ideal wireless multi-hop routing protocol along with several open issues.

This brief provides an overview of recent developments in multi-hop routing protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). It introduces the various classifications of routing protocols and lists the pros and cons of each category, going beyond the conceptual overview of routing classifications offered in other books. Recently many researchers have proposed numerous multi-hop routing protocols and thereby created a need for a book that provides its readers with an up-to-date road map of this research paradigm. The authors present some of the most relevant results achieved by applying an algorithmic approach to the research on multi-hop routing protocols. The book covers measurements, experiences and lessons learned from the implementation of multi-hop communication prototypes. Furthermore, it describes future research challenges and as such serves as a useful guide for students and researchers alike.

This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the second international joint workshops on Wireless and Mobility and on New Trends in Network Architectures and Services organized by the European Network of Excellence on Next Generation Internet, EURO-NGI 2005. The 19 revised full research papers presented together with 1 invited talk are organized in topical sections on wireless solutions, QoS support in next generation networks, and peer to peer architectures and algorithms.

This book introduces a new explanatory cross-layer model specifically designed to understand all aspects of ad hoc and sensor networking, from design through performance issues to application requirements. Future directions, challenges and potential simulation projects are also discussed. The topics included represent a significant portion of what is going on in academia and industry. The vast materials provided will enable readers to not only understand and position themselves in this hot area, but also to develop new capabilities, enhance skills, share expertise, consolidate knowledge and design future solutions. Thus, the book is useful for researchers and engineers, and anyone who seeks a deeper understanding of this growing field and wishes to pursue it as a future research topic.

This book provides a comprehensive yet easy coverage of ad hoc and sensor networks and fills the gap of existing literature in this growing field. It emphasizes that there is a major interdependence among various layers of the network protocol stack. Contrary to wired or even one-hop cellular networks, the lack of a fixed infrastructure, the inherent mobility, the wireless channel, and the underlying routing mechanism by ad hoc and sensor networks introduce a number of technological challenges that are difficult to address within the boundaries of a single protocol layer. All existing textbooks on the subject often focus on a specific aspect of the technology, and fail to provide critical insights on cross-layer interdependencies. To fully understand these intriguing networks, one need to grasp specific solutions individually, and also the many interdependencies and cross-layer interactions.

Abstract: "Wireless systems for industry have mostly used cellular-phone-style radio links, using point-to-point or point-to-multipoint transmission. Past research has indicated that these network architectures are not suitable for several industrial applications because of their rigid structure, meticulous planning requirements, and dropped signals. In contrast, wireless mesh networks are multi-hop systems in which devices assist each other in transmitting packets through the network, and they provide a reliable, flexible system that can be extended to thousands of devices. Some inherent advantages with mesh networks are scalability, non line-of-sight communications, high data rates, and low-cost deployment. Mesh networks have been deployed by MIT researchers and a few companies on a small scale. Mesh networks have not been deployed widely, in part because of some fundamental problems with the current protocols with regards to QoS support and scalability. To meet these requirements, the MAC protocol should be able to guarantee near constant capacity for networks of different sizes, and the routing protocol should perform admission control. Current CSMA-based MAC protocols have been shown to perform inadequately in terms of throughput and scalability in multi-hop deployments. The key problem with using protocols like IEEE 802.11 is that the link throughput is affected severely due to the exposed terminal problem, uncoordinated contentions, and wasteful backoffs. With the 802.11 MAC protocol, our results show that the capacity falls to about 1/10th for a chain and below 1/20th for a grid with horizontal constant bit rate flows. We have developed the WisperNet MAC and routing protocols, which provide end-to-end QoS guarantees over a multi-hop mesh network. By exploiting the topology information and the fact that fixed wireless nodes separated by 3 hops or more can transmit simultaneously, we eliminate collisions and maximize network utilization. The WisperNet routing protocol performs admission control. We show that the WisperNet MAC protocol can guarantee up to 9 times more capacity than IEEE 802.11, and this capacity remains nearly constant as the network grows. Also included is a performance analysis of different routing policies, and their effect on network utilization."