Research Article
Improving Stability in QoS Routing for Ad-Hoc Networks
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-13329-4_11, author={Tiago Coelho and Ant\^{o}nio Costa and Joaquim Macedo and Maria Nicolau}, title={Improving Stability in QoS Routing for Ad-Hoc Networks}, proceedings={Ad Hoc Networks. 6th International ICST Conference, ADHOCNETS 2014, Rhodes, Greece, August 18-19, 2014, Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={ADHOCNETS}, year={2014}, month={11}, keywords={}, doi={10.1007/978-3-319-13329-4_11} }- Tiago Coelho
António Costa
Joaquim Macedo
Maria Nicolau
Year: 2014
Improving Stability in QoS Routing for Ad-Hoc Networks
ADHOCNETS
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-13329-4_11
Abstract
Routing in mobile Ad-Hoc networks is normally a difficult task, but even more challenging if the network is expected to provide support for audio and video streaming between human-carried devices. Besides normal movement and signal impairment difficulties, those multimedia applications may impose extra end-to-end requirements. The computation of optimized and/or constrained network paths using one or more metric restrictions is called QoS (Quality-of-Service) routing. This paper presents QMRS, a QoS routing protocol for Ad-Hoc networks which aims to support applications with QoS requirements including requirements for the end-to-end delay. This protocol proposes a on-demand multiple routes discovery mechanism that is able to find up to three node-disjoint paths that meet the QoS requirement. Additionally, and for the purpose of guarantee the stability of the routing process, it uses the signal strength of the links between neighbouring nodes to elect the most stable route. Such route will be used as the primary choice to forward traffic. The other discovered routes will be maintained as backup in order to eventually replace the primary route, in case of disruption or degradation of required QoS.