Research
Paper: Integrating VANETs in the Internet Core with OSPF: the MPR-OSPF Approach

Solutions for mobile ad hoc routing have matured over the last decade. Building atop these foundations, new challenges are set for MANETs, such as integration in the Internet core. On this topic, this paper designs and evaluates MPR-OSPF, an extension…
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Paper: MPR+SP: Towards a Unified MPR-based MANET Extension for OSPF

Heterogeneous networks combining both wired and wireless components – fixed routers as well as mobile routers – emerge as wireless mesh networks are being deployed. Such heterogeneity is bound to become more and more present in the near future as…
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Paper: An Adaptive Jitter Mechanism for Reactive Route Discovery in Sensor Networks

This paper analyses the impact of jitter when applied to route discovery in reactive (on-demand) routing protocols. In multi-hop non-synchronized wireless networks, jitter—a small, random variation in the timing of message emission—is commonly employed, as a means to avoid collisions…
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Paper: Optimizing Route Length in Reactive Protocols for Ad Hoc Networks

Many protocols for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks propose construction of routes reactively using flooding. The advantage hereof is that no prior assumption of the network topology is required in order to provide routing between any pair of nodes in the network….
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Paper: Performance analysis of Trickle as a flooding mechanism

“The Trickle Algorithm” is conceived as an adaptive mechanism for allowing efficient and reliable information sharing among nodes, communicating across a lossy and shared medium. Its basic principle is, for each node, to monitor transmissions from its neighbours, compare what…
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Paper: Collection Tree Extension of Reactive Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks

This paper proposes an extension to reactive routing protocol, for efficient construction of a collection tree for data acquisition in sensor networks. The Lightweight On-Demand Ad hoc Distance Vector Routing Protocol-Next Generation (LOADng) is a reactive distance vector protocol which…
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IoT, LOADng, Publications, RPL
Paper: A Study of Link Buffering for OLSR

In this paper, we propose an extension of the Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR) protocol based on link layer notification, “link buffering” and “packet restoration”. When link disconnection is detected by link layer notification, the route entries having the disconnected…
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Paper: Efficient Data Acquisition in Sensor Networks:Introducing (the) LOADng Collection Tree Protocol

This paper proposes an extension to the “LLN On-demand Ad hoc Distance-vector Routing Protocol – Next Generation” (LOADng), for efficient construction of a collection tree for data acquisition in sensor networks. The extension uses the mechanisms from LOADng, imposes minimal…
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Paper: Analyzing control traffic overhead in mobile ad-hoc network protocols versus mobility and data traffic activity

This paper proposes a general, parameterized model for analyzing protocol control overheads in mobile ad-hoc networks. A probabilistic model for the network topology and the data traffic is proposed in order to estimate overhead due to control packets of routing…
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