Future Work
l Pro-active route maintenance in AODV (ongoing): AODV
supports multicasting (tree-based), preventing packet drop
even more crucial in this case
l Non-constant transmit power levels
l Monitor multicast packets: increase prediction accuracy,
deal with non-constant transmit power
l Remove stale routes in route cache using prediction
algorithm
l “Soft handoff”: use old route while source node finds new
route
l Impact on TCP (evidence so far is mixed)
l Other ways to predict/monitor/deal with link availability