Thomas Kunz
Systems and
Computer Engineering
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Future
Work
lPro-active route maintenance in AODV (ongoing): AODV supports multicasting (tree-based), preventing packet
drop even more crucial in
this case
lNon-constant transmit power levels
lMonitor multicast packets: increase prediction
accuracy, deal with non-constant transmit power
lRemove stale routes in route cache using prediction algorithm
l“Soft handoff”: use old route while source node finds
new route
lImpact on TCP (evidence so far is mixed)
lOther ways to predict/monitor/deal with link
availability