MiabNET: Message-in-a-bottle Protocol for MANET

TL;DR

MiabNET is a reactive MANET routing protocol that uses a message-in-a-bottle approach, where routing information is spread through random neighbor forwarding until reaching the destination.

Contribution

The paper introduces a novel reactive routing protocol for MANETs that employs random neighbor forwarding inspired by message-in-a-bottle concept.

Findings

Effective route discovery through random neighbor forwarding.

Potential for reduced routing overhead compared to traditional methods.

Demonstrates feasibility of message-in-a-bottle approach in MANETs.

Abstract

In this short paper, we propose MiabNET, a reactive protocol for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANET). This protocol leverages the concept of "message-in-a-bottle" to spread the routing information though the entire network. The idea of the protocol is briefly described as below: if a node would like to find a route to a destination node not in the routing table, it will initialize a bottle and send this bottle to \textbf{a random one} of its neighbors. If this neighbor does not have the route to the destination, it will send the bottle to one of its random neighbors as well, until the bottle reaches the destination node.