Routing and Location Management in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks

By

Sumesh J. Philip (09/20/2001)

Contents
Introduction Routing Protocols

Table Driven (WRP, DSDV) On Demand (DSR, AODV, TORA) Performance Evaluation Geographic (LAR, DREAM)

Location Management for Large Scale Networks (GLS, SLURP, SLALOM) References

Mobile Ad-Hoc Network

Collection of mobile nodes forming a network No centralized administration or standard support services Highly co-operative, each host is an independent router Hosts use wireless RF transceivers as network interface Conferences/Meetings
Search and Rescue

Disaster Recovery
Automated Battlefields

MaNet Constraints and Issues

Lack of a centralized entity Network topology changes frequently and unpredictably Routing and Mobility Management Channel access/Bandwidth availability Hidden/Exposed station problem Lack of symmetrical links Power limitation

Conventional Routing Protocols ?

Not designed for highly dynamic, low bandwidth networks Count-to-infinity problem and slow convergence Loop formation during temporary node failures and network partitions Protocols that use flooding techniques create excessive traffic and control overhead

MaNet Protocols
Proactive Protocols Table driven Continuously evaluate routes No latency in route discovery Large capacity to keep network information current A lot of routing information may never be used! Reactive Protocols On Demand Route discovery by some global search Bottleneck due to latency of route discovery May not be appropriate for real-time communication

Wireless Routing Protocol (WRP)

A Path finding algorithm; uses predecessor to destination in the shortest path Eliminates the Count-to-infinity problem and converges faster Neighbor connectivity via periodic Hello messages Update messages sent upon detecting a change in neighbor link

Each node i maintains a Distance table (iDjk), Routing table (Destination Identifier, Distance iDj , Predecessor Pj ,the successor Sj), link cost table (Cost, Update Period) Processing Updates and creating Route Table Update from k causes i to re-compute the distances of all paths with k as the predecessor For a destination j, a neighbor p is selected as the successor if p->j does not include i, and is the shortest path to j

Operation
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Destination Sequenced Distance Vector (DSDV)

Each Route is tagged with a sequence number originated by destination Hosts perform periodic & triggered updates, issuing a new sequence number Sequence number indicates the freshness of a route

Routes with more recent sequence numbers are preferred for packet forwarding If same sequence number, one having smallest metric used

Topology changes
Broken links assigned a metric of Any route through a hop with a broken link is also assigned a metric of routes are assigned new sequence numbers by any host and immediately broadcast via a triggered update If a node has an equal/later sequence number with a finite metric for an route, a route update is triggered

DSDV Operation

Damping Fluctuations
Routes preferred if later sequence numbers, or smaller metric for same sequence numbers Problem : Table fluctuations if worse metrics are received first, causing a ripple of triggered updates Solution : Use average settling time as a parameter before advertising routes Tantamount to using two tables, one for forwarding packets and another for advertising routes

Dynamic Source Routing (DSR)

Each packet header contains a route, which is represented as a complete sequence of nodes between a source-destination pair Protocol consists of two phases

route discovery route maintenance

Route cache Piggybacking Error handling

Optimizations for efficiency

DSR Route Discovery

Source broadcasts route request (id, target) Intermediate node action Discard if id is in <initiator, request id> or node is in route record If node is the target, route record contains the full route to the target; return a route reply Else append address in route record; rebroadcast Use existing routes to source to send route reply; else piggyback

DSR Route Maintenance

Use acknowledgements or a layer-2 scheme to detect broken links; inform sender via route error packet If no route to the source exists

Use piggybacking Send out a route request and buffer route error

Sender truncates all routes which use nodes mentioned in route error Initiate route discovery

Optimizations for efficiency

Route Cache

Use cached entries for during route discovery Promiscuous mode to add more routes Use hop based delays for local congestion Must be careful to avoid loop formation Non propagating RREQs

Optimizations
Piggybacking

Data piggybacked on route request Packet Problem : route caching can cause piggybacked route replies to be discarded when network becomes partitioned, buffer packets and use exponential back-off for route discovery Listen to route replies promiscuously to remove entries Use negative information to ignore corrupt replies

Improved Error Handling

Ad-hoc On Demand Distance Vector (AODV)

On demand protocol that uses sequence numbers (DSDV) to build loop free routes Key difference from DSR is that source route is no longer required Path discovery

Reverse Path setup Forward path setup

Table management and path maintenance Local connectivity management

AODV Reverse path setup

Counters : Sequence number, Broadcast id Reverse Path

Broadcast route request (RREQ) < source_addr,

source_sequence-# , broadcast_id, dest_addr, dest_sequence_#, hop_cnt > RREQ uniquely identified by <source_addr , broadcast_id> Route reply (RREP) if neighbor is the target, or knows a higher dest_sequence_#

Otherwise setup a pointer to the neighbor from whom RREQ was received Maintain reverse path entries based on timeouts

AODV Forward path setup

RREQ arrives at a node that has current route to the destination ( larger/same sequence number) unicast request reply (RREP)<source_addr, dest_addr, dest_sequence_#, hop_cnt,lifetime> to neighbor RREP travels back to the source along reverse path each upstream node updates dest_sequence_#, sets up a forward pointer to the neighbor who transmit the RREP

AODV Operation

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Protocol Maintenance
Route Table management

Route request expiration timer purges reverse paths that do not lie on active route Active neighbor relays a packet within

active_route_timeout

Route cache timer purges inactive routes New routes preferred if higher destination sequence number or lower metric

AODV Maintenance
Path maintenance

Upon link breakage, affected node propagates an unsolicited RREP <dest_sequence_#+1, > to all upstream nodes Source may restart route discovery process Broadcasts used to update local connectivity information Inactive nodes in an active path required to send hello messages

Local connectivity management

Temporally Ordered Routing Algorithm (TORA)

Link reversal algorithm

Destination oriented Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) Full/Partial reversal of links

Assigns a reference level (height) to each node Adjust reference level to restore routes on link failure Multiple routes to destination; route optimality not important Query, Update, Clear packets used for creating, maintaining and erasing routes

Creating Routes
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Erasing Invalid Routes

Performance Analysis
Simulation Environment

Network Simulator, 50 nodes in a 1500x300m rectangular flat grid Random waypoint mobility Constant bit rate traffic

Address resolution : ARP implementation in BSD Unix Medium Access Control : IEEE 802.11 Physical Layer model : combines both free space and two ray ground reflection model Protocols studied : DSDV(SQ), AODV, DSR, TORA

Performance Analysis
Metrics Packet Delivery Ratio : Ratio of number of packets

generated by CBR sources to that received by CBR sinks at destination Routing Overhead : number of routing packets sent; each transmission counts as one transmission Path Optimality : Difference between length of actual path took and the length of the shortest path

Packet Delivery Ratio

95-100% in most cases for DSR, AODV Stale route entries in DSDV cause drops Short lived loops in TORA as part of link reversal All protocols perform well when there is low node mobility

Routing Overhead (packets)

Route caching and nonpropagating RREQs in DSR TORA

Sum of mobility dependant, independent overhead for TORA Congestive collapse

Nearly constant for DSDV due to periodic updates

Routing Overhead (Bytes)

DSR more expensive than AODV except at high mobility Smaller packets in AODV, may be more expensive in terms of media access, power and network utilization

Path Optimality
DSDV, DSR use routes close to optimal TORA not designed to find shortest path TORA, AODV use paths close to optimum when node mobility is low

Geographic Routing
Not many invariants to play with (IP address, local connectivity) Nodes physically located closer likely to be connected by a small number of radio hops Possible to obtain node location via a GPS system Geographic forwarding

Packet header contains the destinations location Most forward with fixed radius

Distance Routing Effect Algorithm for Mobility (DREAM)

Proactively disseminate location information Distance Effect :

Closer nodes are updated more frequently age field in location update rate of location update controlled by mobility No bandwidth wastage for no movement

Mobility Effect :

Geographic forwarding

If no entry for destination in table, flood Otherwise forward data to m neighbors in the direction of destination

Location Aided Routing (LAR)

On Demand protocol; used restricted flooding for locating destination Flooding is restricted to a request zone, defined by an expected zone A node forwards a route request only if it belongs to the request zone Tradeoff between latency of route determination and message overhead Resorts to flooding when prior information of destination is not available

LAR Scheme 1
Source calculates the expected zone, defines a request zone in the request packet and initiates route discovery Node I receiving the route request forwards the request if it falls inside the request zone, otherwise discards it When destination receives the request, replies with a route reply including current location, time and average speed Size of request zone is large at low and high node speeds

LAR Scheme 2
Source calculates the distance Dists to destination (xd, yd) and initiates route discovery with both parameters Node I calculates its distance Disti from (xd, yd) and forwards the request only if Disti<= Dists + , otherwise discards the request Node I replaces Dists with Disti before forwarding the request Non zero increases probability of route discovery

LAR schemes
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Issue of Scalability
The number of packets each node has to forward and the amount of state kept at each node grow slowly with the size of the network Most existing protocols break down for large networks Table driven

On-demand

incur large overheads due to routing table maintenance

Protocols which use geographic routing use global flooding to build tables or destination discovery; may not be scalable

flood the entire network with discovery packets, wastes network resources long latency for discovery

Location Management
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A addresses a packet to Gs latitude, longitude C only needs to know its immediate neighbors to forward packets towards G. Geographic forwarding needs a location service!

Desirable Properties of Location service

Spread load evenly over all nodes. Degrade gracefully as nodes fail. Queries for nearby nodes stay local. Per-node storage and communication costs grow slowly as the network size grows

Grid Location Service (GLS)

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Scalable Location based Routing Protocol (SLURP)

Hybrid Protocol that has a deterministic manner of discovering the destination Each node selects a home region using f ( ID) , which maintains the nodes current location Nodes that wish to communicate with a node query its home region using f 1 ( ID ) Can use most forward with fixed radius without backward progression to send data, once location is known 3/2 (vN ) Routing overhead

Protocol Operation
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Scalable Location Management (SLALOM)

Define a hierarchy of grids : Order(3), Order(2), Order(1) Assign a Order(1) home region for each node in an Order(2) grid Nodes that wish to communicate with another node query its home region in their Order(2) grid To reduce location update overhead, define far and near home regions; near regions updated frequently Routing overhead (vN 4/3 )

Protocol Operation

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