Thomas Kunz
Systems and Computer Engineering
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Conclusions and Future Work
nExisting MANET routing protocols ignore/underutilize
available network capacity
nCurrent and Future Work on MANET Routing Protocol:
ØCurrently working on new routing algorithm, TB, that
finds routes through less loaded
areas of network (similar to DSR): higher PDR, lower latency
ØTB uses medium usage (collected at MAC) to determine
network load, need to
study other metrics
ØApply TB to MESH networks to balance traffic load to
APs/Gateways
nFuture Work on Linear Programming:
ØLP implicitly finds routes as well – can we use or
approximate those?
ØLP does not adequately capture effects of packet loss
(senders inject “just right” amount
of traffic to achieve max. performance) or routing protocol
ØLP is computational complex and does not deal with
dynamic scenarios