| Title | A power aware heterogeneous routing protocol for MANETs / by Bassam Hassan Moussa | Thesis |
| Name(s) | Moussa, Bassam Hassan (Main Author)
American University of Beirut. Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Department of Computer Science (Related name)
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| Publication | 2009
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| Link(s) | Click for full-text
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| Physical Details | xi, 81 leaves; ill.; 30 cm.
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| Subjects | Ad hoc networks (Computer networks)
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| Classmarks | T:005299
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| Notes | Dissertation: Thesis (M.S.)--American University of Beirut, Dept. of Computer Science, 2009.
Dissertation: Advisor : Prof. Haidar Safa, Associate Professor, Computer Science
Member of Committee : Prof. Hassan Artail, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering
Member of Committee : Prof. Joumana Dargham, Assistant Professor, Computer Science.
Bib. & Index: Bibliography : leaves 76-81.
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| Abstract | Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) face several challenges to provide reliable and scalable communication services. MANET devices are known by their limited power resources, and may be equipped with different transmission technologies. These characteristics are the major concerns of MANET traditional routing protocols which showed good performance in homogeneous MANETs but are inconvenient in a heterogeneous environment and they are careless about the nodes' limited power. Hence, the need for designing routing protocols that support interoperability between heterogeneous nodes and efficiently use the available node resources. In this thesis, we propose a power aware routing protocol for a MANET formed of nodes equipped with heterogeneous communication interfaces. The proposed approach takes into consideration the battery status of nodes and the power cost of routes when establishing a route between two nodes. It aims at avoiding the exhaustion of nodes falling on optimal routes across the network thus providing better connectivity and extending the network lifetime. We have implemented the proposed approach as an extension to JiST/SWANS network simulator and compared its performance to other heterogeneity aware and power aware routing protocols. The results showed that a significant cost reduction can be obtained with our approach when measuring parameters such as node reachability, routing overhead, energy consumption, scalability and network lifetime.
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