Cross layer Interaction Models for SCTP and OLSR

TL;DR

This paper applies the Reverse Cross Layer (RCL) method to develop cross layer interaction models between SCTP and OLSR, aiming to enhance wireless network performance through new protocol interactions.

Contribution

It introduces a novel application of the RCL method to SCTP and OLSR, creating new cross layer interaction models to improve wireless network efficiency.

Findings

New cross layer interactions improve network performance

Enhanced environment subsystem with proposed interactions

Performance gains quantified for each cross layer atomic action

Abstract

The evolution from wired system to the wireless environment opens a set of challenge for the improvement of the wireless system performances because of many of their weakness compared to wired networks. To achieve this goal, cross layer techniques are used to facilitate the sharing of information between the layers of the OSI model. In some precedent works, the Reverse Cross Layer (RCL) method has been proposed to facilitate the design of cross layer conceptual models. The method has the advantage to highlight the impact of each cross layer interaction on each protocol in order to update its source code and to describe the intuitive gains that can be achieve. The method may be applied to a given protocol stack or to an existent cross layer model to integrate new interactions. In this paper, we are applying the RCL method on the stack that uses the Stream Control Transport Protocol (SCTP) at the transport layer and the Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR) at the network layer. Cross layer conceptual models are produced based on new cross layer interactions that are proposed to populate the environment subsystem built with the application of the RCL method. The improvement of the environment subsystem is specified through the performance gains provide by the new interactions. The implementation of the interactions that impact the SCTP protocol is described in the Interaction Description Array. After the introduction, Section II of this paper presents an overview of the SCTP protocol. Section III is related to the overview of the OLSR protocol. Section IV is used for the application of the RCL method and the different interaction arrays it generates. Section V presents the improvement of the environment subsystem and the definition of the performance gain of each Cross Layer Atomic Action (CLAA).