Monitoring Dynamic Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks: A Fully Distributed Hybrid Architecture

TL;DR

This paper introduces a fully distributed hybrid monitoring architecture for MANETs that combines gossip-based and hierarchical approaches to improve stability, robustness, and efficiency in dynamic mobile environments.

Contribution

It presents a novel hybrid distributed monitoring protocol tailored for MANETs, addressing mobility and decentralization challenges with a combined gossip and hierarchical strategy.

Findings

The proposed architecture enhances data aggregation stability in dynamic MANETs.

Simulation results demonstrate improved efficiency and robustness of the monitoring protocol.

The approach is effective in maintaining network monitoring with minimal communication overhead.

Abstract

The mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) represent a broad area of study and market interest. They provide a wide set of applications in multiple domains. In that context, the functional and non-functional monitoring of these networks is crucial. For that purpose, monitoring techniques have been deeply studied in wired networks using gossip-based or hierarchical-based approaches. However, when applied to a MANET, several problematics arise mainly due to the absence of a centralized administration, the inherent MANETs constraints and the nodes mobility. In this paper, we present a hybrid distributed monitoring architecture for mobile adhoc networks in context of mobility pattern. 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. Further, we propose a fully distributed monitoring protocol that ease the nodes communications. We evaluate our approach through a simulated testbed by using NS3 and Docker, and illustrate the efficiency of our mechanisms.