Multi-Hop Bandwidth Management Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

TL;DR

This paper introduces MBMP, a scalable multi-hop bandwidth management protocol for wireless ad hoc networks, ensuring QoS by considering neighboring nodes' bandwidth consumption and availability.

Contribution

The paper proposes a novel, scalable admission control scheme called MBMP tailored for multi-hop ad hoc networks, with comprehensive analysis and simulation validation.

Findings

MBMP effectively supports QoS in multi-hop ad hoc networks.

Simulation results show MBMP outperforms existing schemes.

Mathematical analysis confirms MBMP's scalability and efficiency.

Abstract

An admission control scheme should play the role of a coordinator for flows in a data communication network, to provide the guarantees as the medium is shared. The nodes of a wired network can monitor the medium to know the available bandwidth at any point of time. But, in wireless ad hoc networks, a node must consume the bandwidth of neighboring nodes, during a communication. Hence, the consumption of bandwidth by a flow and the availability of resources to any wireless node strictly depend upon the neighboring nodes within its transmission range. We present a scalable and efficient admission control scheme, Multi-hop Bandwidth Management Protocol (MBMP), to support the QoS requirements in multi-hop ad hoc networks. We simulate several options to design MBMP and compare the performances of these options through mathematical analysis and simulation results, and compare its effectiveness with the existing admission control schemes through extensive simulations.