2nd International ICST Workshop on Personalized Networks

Research Article

Cross Layer Design for Enhanced Quality Routing in Personal Wireless Networking

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/MOBIQ.2007.4451061,
        author={Jinglong  Zhou and  Martin  Jacobsson and Ignas Niemegeers},
        title={Cross Layer Design for Enhanced Quality Routing in Personal Wireless Networking},
        proceedings={2nd International ICST Workshop on Personalized Networks},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={PERNETS},
        year={2008},
        month={2},
        keywords={Personal Networks (PN)  cross layer design  link quality assessment (LQA)},
        doi={10.1109/MOBIQ.2007.4451061}
    }
    
  • Jinglong Zhou
    Martin Jacobsson
    Ignas Niemegeers
    Year: 2008
    Cross Layer Design for Enhanced Quality Routing in Personal Wireless Networking
    PERNETS
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/MOBIQ.2007.4451061
Jinglong Zhou1,*, Martin Jacobsson1,*, Ignas Niemegeers1,*
  • 1: Delft University of Technology, 2600 GA Delft, the Netherlands
*Contact email: J.Zho@ewi.tudelft.nl, M.Jacobsson@ewi.tudelft.nl, I.Niemegeers@ewi.tudelft.nl

Abstract

With more and more consumer devices becoming capable of wireless communication, the need for good quality ad hoc networking becomes more imminent. Self-configuring and self-adapting multi-hop networking will provide an excellent solution for wireless personal area networks (WPAN) as well as wireless home networks. In such networks, scalability is rarely believed to be a real issue. Instead, the issues are related to the end-to-end quality due to wireless links with constantly and rapidly changing quality. Hence, the network layer not only needs to adapt accurately but also in time. This paper looks into the design of accurate and fast wireless link quality assessment (LQA) options. We investigate the possibility to use cross layer information to improve this process which can be used by the routing layer to adapt faster and more accurately to changing situations. Experiments are done and the result shows the importance of adapting the new LQA options.