CAREER: Adaptive Architecture for Multicast Service Support in Large-Scale Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: Design and Evaluation Framework

该提案概述了推进无线移动自组织网络领域的研究和教育的全面职业计划。这项研究计划由两个互补的桶组成。第一部分是设计和开发一种新的广域自组网可扩展多播路由体系结构，第二部分提出了一种新的评估无线自组播路由协议的方法。该教育计划包括开发与实验室相结合的无线网络课程，并提出新的方法来提高学生在学习过程中的参与度。提出了在大规模自组织网络中设计一种新的支持组播服务的可扩展体系结构，旨在充分利用该体系结构的各个组件中的高/v自适应机制。具体地说，设计了一种基于区域的自适应分层结构，并通过联系节点的概念进行扩充，以增加网络覆盖。此外，基于自适应选播的资源发现，为组播服务提供新的支持方案。此外，引入地理组播地址分配以将组映射到集合区域。所有提出的机制都是可自我配置的，并具有良好的可伸缩性和健壮性。

This proposal outlines a comprehensive career plan for advancement of research and education in the field of wireless mobile ad hoc networks. The research plan consists of two complementary pails. The first is to design and develop a novel architecture for scalable multicast routing in wide-area ad hoc networks, while the second part proposes new methodologies for evaluation of wireless ad hoc routing protocols. The educational plan includes developing wireless networking courses coupled with a laboratory, in addition to proposing novel methods to improve student participation in the learning process. Also, proposed to design a new scalable architecture for multicast services support in large-scale ad hoc networks, the first of its kind.The proposed research program intends to fully utilize high/v adaptive mechanisms in the various components of the architecture. Specifically, to design an adaptive zone-based hierarchy augmented by the notion of contact nodes to increase network coverage. In addition, to provide novel schemes for multicast service support, based on adaptive anycast for resource discovery. Also, introduce geographic multicast address allocation to map groups into rendezvous regions. All the proposed mechanisms are self-configurable, and promise desirable scaling and robustness properties.