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

本提案概述了一个全面的职业规划，以促进无线移动自组织网络领域的研究和教育。研究计划由两个互补的部分组成。第一部分是设计和开发广域自组织网络中可扩展组播路由的新架构，而第二部分提出了评估无线自组织路由协议的新方法。该教育计划包括开发无线网络课程与实验室相结合，此外还提出了提高学生在学习过程中的参与度的新方法。在此基础上，提出了一种新的支持大规模自组织网络多播业务的可扩展架构。提出的研究计划旨在充分利用高/v自适应机制的各个组成部分的架构。具体地说，设计一个基于自适应区域的层次结构，通过接触节点的概念增强，以增加网络覆盖。此外，在自适应任播资源发现的基础上，提出了新的组播服务支持方案。同时，引入地理组播地址分配，将组映射到集合区域。所有提出的机制都是自配置的，并承诺理想的扩展和鲁棒性。

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.