Practical DHT-based location service for wireless mesh networks

Mehdi Bezahaf, Marcelo Dias de Amorim, Serge Fdida, Luigi Iannone
2009 Proceedings of the 5th international student workshop on Emerging networking experiments and technologies - Co-Next Student Workshop '09  
Mobility management in Wireless Mesh Networks (WMN) is a hot topic still lacking a final, widely accepted, and deployed solution. The major drawbacks of existing proposals is the fact that they rely on some sort of flooding-based technique and very often they need support from end-users' devices. Flooding in wireless environments leads to increased latency and broadcast storm problems, thus providing low performances. In this paper, we argue that a DHT-based approach can overcome such
more » ... s and provide an effective solution to the mobility management problem. A preliminary evaluation of our DHT-based scheme on a real WMN test-bed shows encouraging results when compared to previous solutions.
doi:10.1145/1658997.1659023 dblp:conf/conext/BezahafAFI09 fatcat:r3kli3x3qbewvjhhbyvubpk2zu