Adaptive Deployment Scheme for Mobile Relays in Substitution Networks

• Published in: International journal of distributed sensor networks 2012-01, Vol.2012 (2012), p.1-9
• Main Authors: Miranda, Karen, Natalizio, Enrico, Razafindralambo, Tahiry
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Application software; Computer networks; Computer Science; Delay; Electric relays; Evolution; Information storage and retrieval systems; Jitter; Networking and Internet Architecture; Networks; Pattern recognition systems; Proposals; Routers; Routing (Computer network management); Simulation; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; الاتصالات الرقمية; الاتصالات السلكية و اللاسلكية; شبكات الحاسوب; شبكات المعلومات; معالجة البيانات
• ISSN: 1550-1329; 1550-1477; 1550-1477
• DOI: 10.1155/2012/128904

We present how the mobility of routers impacts the performance of a wireless substitution network. To that end, we simulate a scenario where a wireless router moves between three static nodes, a source and two destinations of UDP traffic. Specifically, our goal is to deploy or redeploy the mobile relays so that application-level requirements, such as data delivery or latency, are met. Our proposal for a mobile relay achieves these goals by using an adaptive approach to self-adjust their position based on local information. We obtain results on the performance of end-to-end delay, jitter, loss percentage, and throughput under such mobility pattern for the mobile relay. We show how the proposed solution is able to adapt to topology changes and to the evolution of the network characteristics through the usage of limited neighborhood knowledge.