Performance Comparison of Gateway Discovery Algorithms in Ad Hoc Networks with Mobile Nodes

Conference: European Wireless 2006 - 12th European Wireless Conference 2006 - Enabling Technologies for Wireless Multimedia Communications
04/02/2006 - 04/05/2006 at Athens, Greece

Proceedings: European Wireless 2006

Pages: 5Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Rosenschon, Matthias; Rakocevic, Veselin (School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, City University, London EC1V 0HB, United Kingdom)
Habermann, Joachim (University of Applied Sciences, Wilhelm-Leuschner-Strasse 13, 61169 Friedberg, Germany)

Abstract:
The connection of ad-hoc networks to the Internet is typically established via gateways. To start an Internet connection, gateways have to be discovered by the mobile nodes within the ad-hoc cluster. This paper presents a new gateway discovery algorithm based on HELLO messages of the AODV protocol and compares the performance of the new algorithm with standard proactive and reactive algorithms. NS-2 simulator is used to investigate the algorithms on the basis of the discovery time and the handover delay. Our results show good performance of the new HELLO message based algorithm in both terms.