Declarative policy-based adaptive MANET routing

Changbin Liu, Ricardo Correa, Xiaozhou Li, Prithwish Basu, Boon Thau Loo, Yun Mao
2009 2009 17th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols  
This paper presents the design and implementation of declarative policy-based adaptive MANET routing protocols. Our work builds upon declarative networking, a recent innovation for building extensible network architectures using declarative languages. We make the following contributions. First, we demonstrate that traditional MANET protocols can be expressed in a compact fashion as declarative networks. We validate these declarative protocols via an experimental study on the ORBIT wireless
more » ... ed and a cluster-based emulation environment. Second, we demonstrate that policy-driven adaptation can be specified in a generic set of declarative rule-based policies that dictate the dynamic selection of different protocols based on network conditions. Third, we conduct extensive evaluation results of declarative policy-based adaptation of MANET routing on the ORBIT wireless testbed and the cluster-based emulation environment. Our experimental results show that the specified policies enable MANETs to dynamically hybridize a variety of routing protocols to achieve a good tradeoff in bandwidth utilization and route quality.
doi:10.1109/icnp.2009.5339669 dblp:conf/icnp/LiuCLBLM09 fatcat:wugcsam6kvaazcpyfm2yzbihfm