9 Ad-Hoc

Ad-hoc Networking
Outline
Ad-Hoc Networking?
Why?
What?
How?
When? : Past, Present, Future
Scenario
The advent of cheap microprocessors
and wireless technologies
Trend: ~1000 computer devices/person
by 2010
Use Cases
Possibilities
Telephones (cellular, cordless, other)
Cordless multimedia (headsets, speakers, mic.)
Portable computers (Laptops, desktop, other)
Cordless computer peripherals (keyboard, mouse)
LAN Local Area Network peripherals (printer,
fax)
PDAs - Personal Digital Assistants (palm top/pilot)
Digital cameras
Ad-what?
Ad-hoc network
a LAN or other small network,
with wireless connections
devices are part of the network only for the
duration of a communications session
Or while in close proximity to the network 6
Ad-hoc Networking
Collection of wireless mobile nodes (devices)
dynamically forming a temporary network
without the use of any existing network
infrastructure or centralized administration
An ubiquitous type of computing often referred
to as pervasive/invisible computing
Ubiquitous: Present, appearing, or found
everywhere
Pervasive: Spread through or into every part
of
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Properties
Requires devices to cooperate autonomously
Without user intervention
Rapid self-organizing wireless network
Independent of infrastructure
Heterogeneous & adaptive
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Why?
Microprocessor embedding trend in:
cellular phones, car stereos, televisions, VCRs,
watches, GPS (Global Positioning System)
receivers, digital camera.
Ensembles of computational devices for:
environmental monitoring
personal area networks
geophysical measurement
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How?
Transmission Standards:
1.
Piconet
2.
HomeRF (Radio Frequency)
3.
IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN WG (Working Group)
4.
Bluetooth SIG (Special Interest Group)
5.
These above use radio waves from licence-exempt

ISM (Industrial, Scientific and Medical)
frequency band - around 2.4 GHz
IrDA (InfraRed Data Association)

which uses infrared instead of radio waves
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Piconet
A general purpose, low-powered, ad-hoc
network
It allows two devices near each other to
inter-operate
These devices can be either mobile or fixed
The range is said to be reasonably short
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HomeRF
Uses Shared Wireless Access Protocol (SWAP)
system
carries both voice and data traffic
inter-operate with the PSTN
(Public Switched Telephone Network)
and the Internet
the range covers typical home and yard
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IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN

The principles of Wireless Local Area Network
(WLAN) are defined in IEEE 802.11 standard
It defines two different topologies:
ad-hoc network and infrastructure network
This ad-hoc network is able to use only created
wireless connection instead of fixed
infrastructure
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Bluetooth
The code name for an open specification for
short-range wireless connectivity
Effortless, instant wireless connections between
a wide range of communication devices in a
small environment
The BT range restricts the environment to about
10 meters
Used in virtually any mobile device like that can
have Bluetooth radios integrated into them
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IrDA
based on technology similar to the remote

control devices
high-speed short range, point-to-point cordless
data transfer
in-room cordless peripherals to host-PC
maturity and standardization activities
advantage over radio
line-of-sight requirement disadvantage
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Wireless comparison
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Applications
Some current
prospects
deployments,
research
and
Cybiko
Sensor Networks e.g. Smart Dust
Mobile Commerce (M-Commerce) - proposed
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Cybiko
like a Palm Pilot, except with free games
and and is designed for entertainment unlike
palms which are really meant as organisers
wireless connectivity RF transmitter for text
chat
when cybikos network together, they relay messages to
other cybikos, which allows the range to be increased
up to 100 cybikos can be networked in this way, and
3000 cybikos can be online in one area at once before
the ISM RF band gets full
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it will have a range of approx. 1km outside, 500m inside
Sensor Nets Smart

Dust I
thousands to millions of small sensors form selforganizing wireless networks
consists of nodes, small battery powered devices,
that communicate with a more powerful base
station, which in turn is connected to an outside
network.
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Sensor Nets Smart Dust II

Metrics:
CPU
8-bit, 4MHz
Storage
8KB instruction
flash
512 bytes RAM
512 bytes
EEPROM
Communication
916 MHz radio
Bandwidth
10 kbps
Operating
System
TinyOS
OS code space
3500 bytes
Available
code station
4500 communication,
bytes
Node
to base
e.g. sensor readings
space
Base station to node communication, e.g. specific requests

Base station to all nodes, e.g. routing beacons, queries or
reprogramming of the entire network
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M-Commerce
Mobile phones to extend the possibilities of
commerce
make commerce platforms more important
electronic and mobile commerce transactions
will be open for wide markets
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Issues & Interests

What do you see as the next interesting things
in mobile computing?
What potential do you see for wireless
networks?
What do you see as the hardest things for us
to address? Security for one!
If you could wish for one key piece of
technology to come true (for mobility), what
would it be?
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Ad Hoc Networks and

Their Protocols:
Ad Hoc Networking
A mode of loosely connected networking
characterized by the following qualities:
lack of fixed infrastructure

peer-to-peer (all nodes act as routers)
multi-hop routing
frequent connection / topology changes
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Applications of Ad Hoc
Earliest uses: military

law enforcement
emergency search-and-rescue
teams
business / commercial
conventions / expos
data acquisition
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Challenges Facing Ad Hoc
Security
scalability
load balancing / etiquette between
hosts
QoS
CPU/memory overhead
effect on devices battery life
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Issues in Protocol Design
Must run in distributed environment

must provide loop-free routes
must be able to find multiple routes
must establish routes quickly
must minimize overhead in its
communication / reaction to
topology change
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Some Implementation Choices
Flat vs. hierarchical architecture

proactive vs. reactive to topology changes
table-based, demand-driven, associativitydriven
topology change dissemination methods
when/how often to exchange topology info
assumptions about rate of change of
topology and/or quality of connections
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Some Ad Hoc Protocols
DARPA (1970s military packet radio)

used with SURAN (SURvivable Adaptive Network; an early ad hoc networking
testbed)
CGSR (hierarchical)
TORA (time-based; uses link
reversal)
DSR
AODV
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CGSR: Hierarchical Routing
All nodes send

their data to
cluster head nodes
heads act as
second-tier, highpower network
+: simpler routing
-: poor load
balancing,
not secure
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In-Depth: AODV
(Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector
routing)
purely on-demand (no routes determined

until needed)
each node contains routing table of

next-hop information for how to
get to every other node
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AODV Path Discovery
Source node broadcasts

a path discovery
message continues until
it reaches destination,
or node with path in
table
sequence nums
discovery response sent
back along reverse path
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AODV Path/Connection
Maintenance
Nodes ping with hello messages to

test links
timeouts assumed to be broken

links
(only) recent active nodes notified
of topology changes--propogated
to neighbors
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Contrast: DSR
(Dynamic Source Routing)
resides in kernel IP layer (based on IPv6

format)
nodes contain tables of full paths to other
nodes
messages: Route Request, Route Reply,
Route Error, ACK
Send, Retransmit buffers

passive ACK
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DSR Route Discovery
One-hop Route Request (ask immediate neighbors)

if that fails, broadcast request to whole network
Route Reply is sent by destination or node with
path in cache
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DSR Route/Connection
Maintenance
Repeated failed
requests to retransmit
packets cause a Route
Error message
on-demand; no pinging
all nodes in Route Error
chain update their
caches
source can again do
Route Discovery
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DSR Ack and Retransmit
Passive ACK - listen in promiscuous mode

to see if neighboring nodes are
forwarding
duplicate detection
adaptive retransmit - uses length of
transmit queue to bump up retrans time
during periods of network congestion
multi-level packet priority queue
(IP TOS field)
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How DSR Fits into Testbed
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DSR vs. AODV

DSR
AODV
routing table format
full path
next hop
route checking
passive acks hello pings
rate of propogation of
topology changes
ability to handle frequent
topology change
CPU / memory usage
fast
slower
good
fair
high
low
scalability
poor
excellent
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Ad-hoc Networking

HomeRF (Radio Frequency)

IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN WG (Working Group)

Bluetooth SIG (Special Interest Group)

These above use radio waves from licence-exempt

IrDA (InfraRed Data Association)

IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN

based on technology similar to the remote

Sensor Nets Smart

Sensor Nets Smart Dust II

916 MHz radio

Base station to node communication, e.g. specific requests

Issues & Interests

Ad Hoc Networks and

lack of fixed infrastructure

Earliest uses: military

Challenges Facing Ad Hoc

Issues in Protocol Design

Must run in distributed environment

Some Implementation Choices

Flat vs. hierarchical architecture

Some Ad Hoc Protocols

DARPA (1970s military packet radio)

CGSR: Hierarchical Routing

All nodes send

purely on-demand (no routes determined

each node contains routing table of

AODV Path Discovery

Source node broadcasts

Nodes ping with hello messages to

timeouts assumed to be broken

resides in kernel IP layer (based on IPv6

Send, Retransmit buffers

DSR Route Discovery

One-hop Route Request (ask immediate neighbors)

DSR Ack and Retransmit

Passive ACK - listen in promiscuous mode

How DSR Fits into Testbed

DSR vs. AODV

routing table format

passive acks hello pings

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