Abstract
The Mobile ad hoc Network (MANET) is a collection of mobile devices that forms a self-created, self-administered, and self-organized network. It is an infrastructureless network that does not require an existing infrastructure to operate. MANET suits scenarios where a temporary network is needed, such as emergency rescue, the military field, and disaster areas. MANET is an isolated network, and communication is restricted to the participating nodes’ transmission coverage. In order to increase its connectivity and its application scope, however, MANET requires integration with other networks, forming a hybrid MANET. The integration of MANET and IP networks raises many challenges and issues. Mobility management is one of the main challenges. Traditional mobility management protocols provide seamless mobility in a single hop infrastructure network. Consequently, mobile nodes can maintain their global connectivity without interrupting the ongoing sessions. Mobility management becomes more challenging in a network that relies on multi-hop communication, such as MANET. This paper presents a survey of the use of mobility management systems when integrating MANET with the internet, with the objective of serving as a handy reference in this field of research. It presents, analyzes, and discusses existing mobility management solutions for integrated MANET networks. It also investigates their shortcomings and provides a comparative study of the surveyed proposals.
Highlights
The Mobile ad hoc Network (MANET) is an autonomous collection of mobile devices that forms a self-created, self-administered, and self-organized network
Mobility management in single-hop infrastructure networks is provided using traditional mobility management protocols, it is more challenging when applied to multi-hop and infrastructureless networks such as MANET
This paper surveys the existing efforts in the literature to provide mobility management solutions for MANET integrated with the internet
Summary
The Mobile ad hoc Network (MANET) is an autonomous collection of mobile devices that forms a self-created, self-administered, and self-organized network. The integration reduces communication and deployment costs and helps to extend the coverage of the existing infrastructure It provides additional services for the MANET. The integration provides MANET nodes with internet access, and increases the application scope for MANET. More similar surveys to that presented in this paper were published more than 10 years ago [12], a large number of solutions have been proposed since . This paper focuses on the use of mobility management systems when integrating MANET with the internet. It presents, analyzes, and discusses existing mobility management solutions for integrated MANET networks over the last two decades.
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