


Routing Performance in the Presence of Unidirectional Links in Multihop Wireless Networks Mahesh K. Marina and Samir R. DasACM MOBIHOC’02
Outline • Introduction • Benefit of unidirectional links for routing • Technical of handling unidirectional links in AODV • Performance evaluation • Conclusions
Introduction(1) • 3 reason cause unidirectional link • Difference in radio transceiver capabilities • Use of transmission range control • Difference in wireless channel interference experienced by different nodes
Introduction(2) • 2 conceivable advantages over using only bidirectional links • Improvement of the network connectivity • Better and shorter paths are provided
B communicates C directly C requires 2 hops to communicate with B Without unidirectional link, the graph will separate into two parts Introduction(3)
Introduction(4) • Many common link-layer protocols for medium access and address resolution • Assume bidirectional link • Depend on two-way handshakes and acknowledges • Ex: IEEE 802.11 DCF • RTS-CTS-DATA-ACK
Benefit of Unidirectional Links for Route(1) • 3 models for evaluation of unidirectional links • Two Power • Random Power • Rodoplu and Meng (R&M)
Forgoing Observation • Unidirectional links • Provide only incremental benefit • Do not improve connectivity in most cases • Improve shortest path cost in general • Provide small benefit with per-hop acknowledge under certain densities and radio ranges
RREQ RREP RREQ RREQ RREQ DISCARD RREP RREQ Technical of handling unidirectional links in AODV(1)
Technical of handling unidirectional links in AODV(2) • 3 techniques to handle unidirectional links in AODV • Black Listing • Hello • Reverse path Search
RREQ RREQ RREQ RREP RREQ RREQ RREQ RREQ RREP RREP RREQ RREP RREP RREQ RREQ RREP BRREP BRREP Technical of handling unidirectional links in AODV(3)
Conclusions • Reverse Path Search technique performs the best • IEEE 802.11 MAC performance degrades in the presence of unidirectional links • A new efficient MAC protocol to handle unidirectional links is needed