MANETs monitoring with a distributed hybrid architecture

TL;DR

This paper introduces a hybrid distributed monitoring architecture for MANETs that combines gossip-based and hierarchical algorithms to improve data aggregation, stability, and robustness in dynamic environments.

Contribution

It proposes a novel fully distributed monitoring protocol for MANETs inspired by gossip and hierarchical algorithms, enhancing communication efficiency and robustness.

Findings

Effective data aggregation in MANETs demonstrated

Enhanced stability and robustness in dynamic environments

Validated approach using NS3 and Docker simulations

Abstract

Monitoring techniques have been deeply studied in wired networks using gossip and hierarchical approaches. However, when applied to a MANET, several problematics arise. We present a hybrid distributed monitoring architecture for MANETs. We get inspired of gossip-based and hierarchical-based algorithms for query dissemination and data aggregation. We define gossip-based mechanisms that help our virtual hierarchical topology to complete the data aggregation, and then ensure the stability and robustness of our approach in dynamic environments. We propose a fully distributed monitoring protocol that ease the nodes communications. We evaluate our approach by using NS3 and Docker.