DHYMON: a Continuous Decentralized Hybrid Monitoring Architecture for MANETs

TL;DR

DHYMON introduces a decentralized hybrid monitoring algorithm for MANETs that combines gossip and tree approaches, using multi root nodes to improve accuracy and network coverage, validated through extensive emulations.

Contribution

The paper presents a novel decentralized monitoring algorithm for MANETs that enhances accuracy by multi root node selection and combines gossip and tree-based methods.

Findings

Improved monitoring accuracy in MANETs.

Effective scalability demonstrated through emulations.

Faster convergence times in network monitoring.

Abstract

We introduce a novel decentralized monitoring algorithm for mobile ad-hoc networks. This algorithm is a combination of gossip-based and tree-based approaches. Its main feature is on multi root nodes selection which provides an opportunity to obtain more accurate results as it maximizes the coverage of the network. Our proposal relies on a thorough defined algorithm and its efficient and effective implementation. The algorithm is divided in two main parts that are its query procedure and its disseminate procedure. To assess different parameters such as accuracy and convergence time, we conducted experiments with an in-house emulated test bed based on Docker and NS3. To show the effectiveness and scalability of our proposal, we conduct intensive emulations that demonstrate very promising results regarding the gain of accuracy.