Dynamic Changes In Network Topology Research Articles

Wireless mesh networks

Wireless telemedicine using GSM and GPRS technologies can only provide low bandwidth connections, which makes it difficult to transmit images and video. Satellite or 3G wireless transmission provides greater bandwidth, but the running costs are high. Wireless networks (WLANs) appear promising, since they can supply high bandwidth at low cost. However, the WLAN technology has limitations, such as coverage. A new wireless networking technology named the wireless mesh network (WMN) overcomes some of the limitations of the WLAN. A WMN combines the characteristics of both a WLAN and ad hoc networks, thus forming an intelligent, large scale and broadband wireless network. These features are attractive for telemedicine and telecare because of the ability to provide data, voice and video communications over a large area. One successful wireless telemedicine project which uses wireless mesh technology is the Emergency Room Link (ER-LINK) in Tucson, Arizona, USA. There are three key characteristics of a WMN: self-organization, including self-management and self-healing; dynamic changes in network topology; and scalability. What we may now see is a shift from mobile communication and satellite systems for wireless telemedicine to the use of wireless networks based on mesh technology, since the latter are very attractive in terms of cost, reliability and speed.

이동 애드 혹 네트워크를 위한 다중경로 동적 소스 라우팅 프로토콜

이동 애드-혹 네트워크는 물리적 위치 이동이 가능한 노트들에 의해 자체적으로 형성되는 시스템으로 동적 위상을 고려한 라우팅 프로토콜을 필요로 한다 본 논문에서는 IETT의 라우팅 프로토콜 DSR을 확장한 R-DSR이라 불리는 온-디멘드 다중경로 프로토콜을 제안한다. 제안된 프로토콜에서는 DSR에 의해 구축되는 단인 경로 상의 2-홉 간격의 모든 노드들에 대해 별도의 노드론 경유하는 추가 경로가 연결된다. 수학적 분석을 통하여 DSR 관련 연구 중 가장 대표적인 방법 중의 하나인 Das의 다중경로 프로토콜보다 더 높은 메시지 전달 확률을 제공함을 보였다. A mobile ad-hoc network is an autonomous system of mobile nodes which are free to move around randomly and organize themselves arbitrarily, hence a routing protocol that handles the dynamic network topology changes is required for the network. In this paper we present a multi -Path on-demand routing protocol called R-DSR (Robust Dynamic Source Routing), an extension to the existing IETF protocol DSR. The proposed protocol has it that every pair of 2-hop away nodes on the single route is additionally connected via an alternative node. Throughout mathematical analysis we show the proposed protocol reveals higher message delivery rate than that of the Das's multi-path protocol, currently known as one of the most typical approaches related to DSR.

A self-stabilizing algorithm for the maximum flow problem

The maximum flow problem is a fundamental problem in graph theory and combinatorial optimization with a variety of important applications. Known distributed algorithms for this problem do not tolerate faults or adjust to dynamic changes in network topology. This paper presents the first distributed self-stabilizing algorithm for the maximum flow problem. Starting from an arbitrary state, the algorithm computes the maximum flow in a acyclic network in finitely many steps. Since the algorithm is self-stabilizing, it is inherently tolerant to transient faults and can automatically adjust to topology changes and to changes in other parameters of the problem. A slight modification of the original algorithm is also presented and it is conjectured that the new algorithm computes a maximum flow in arbitrary networks. >