Al-Zyoud, Faisal Yousef Abed-alrahman
(2011)
Xcast Based Routing Protocol For Push To Talk Application In Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.
PhD thesis, Universiti Sains Malaysia.
Abstract
Mobile ad-hoc networks comprise a type of wireless network that can be easily
created without the need for network infrastructure or administration. These
networks are organized and administered into temporary and dynamic network
topologies. Unfortunately, mobile ad-hoc networks suffer from some limitations
related to insufficient bandwidth. The proliferation of new IP Multimedia subsystem
services (IMs), such as Push-to-talk (PTT) applications consume large amounts of
bandwidth, resulting in degraded QoS performance of mobile ad-hoc networks. In
this thesis, a Priority XCAST based routing protocol (P-XCAST) is proposed for
mobile ad-hoc networks to minimize bandwidth consumption. P-XCAST is based on
demand route requests and route reply mechanisms for every destination in the PXCAST
layer. To build the network topology and fill up the route table for nodes,
the information in the route table is used to classify the XCAST list of destinations
according to similarities on their next hop. Furthermore, P-XCAST is merged with a
proposed Group Management algorithm to handle node mobility by classifying nodes
into two types: group head and member. The proposed protocol was tested using the
GloMoSim network simulator under different network scenarios to investigate
Quality of Service (QoS) performance network metrics. P-XCAST performance was
better by about 20% than those of other tested routing protocols by supporting of
group size up to twenty receivers with an acceptable QoS. Therefore, it can be
applied under different network scenarios (static or dynamic). In addition Link
throughput and average delay was calculated using queuing network model; as this
model is suitable for evaluating the IEEE 802.11 MAC that is used for push to talk applications. The analytical results for link throughput and average delay were used
to validate the simulated results.
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