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BibliographyWeinschrott, Harald; Dürr, Frank; Rothermel, Kurt: Symbolic Routing for Location-based Services in Wireless Mesh Networks.
In: Proceedings of the IEEE 24nd International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications.
University of Stuttgart : Collaborative Research Center SFB 627 (Nexus: World Models for Mobile Context-Based Systems).
pp. 1-8, english.
IEEE Computer Society, April 23, 2010.
Article in Proceedings (Conference Paper).
CR-SchemaC.2.2 (Network Protocols)
Abstract

Wireless Mesh Networks are cost-efficient medium-scale networks that have the potential to serve as an infrastructure for advanced location-based services. As a basis for these services we present a routing algorithm that allows to address intuitive symbolic coordinates. This algorithm is based on a proactively maintained geographic routing structure that mimics the structure of a symbolic location model. Message forwarding is done greedily along short paths defined by a symbolic location model and if this fails, through an hierarchical overlay network built by selected mesh routers. We show how a geocast communication mechanism that allows to send messages to all hosts within a specific location can be implemented with this routing algorithm. In extensive evaluations we show that a low proactive routing overhead allows to achieve high message delivery rates even in case of mobility. Moreover, we show that the paths achieved are only 25% longer than the theoretic optimal paths for a wide range of simulation settings.

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Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Distributed Systems
Project(s)SFB-627, A2 (University of Stuttgart, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Distributed Systems)
SFB-627, B3 (University of Stuttgart, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Distributed Systems)
Entry dateApril 12, 2010