Minimizing Control Management Overhead for Scalable Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks

Abstract

In this paper, we provide a parametric model for analyzing the control overhead usage in mobile ad-hoc networks (MANET). In particular, we focus on evaluating the impact of the hierarchy of both topology formation and routing on the scalability of overhead usage. Via an analytical approach, we quantitatively characterize the amount of overhead under different domain sizes, as well as other design parameters. The results help us to assess optimal scaling of overhead traffic as a function of network size N and to provide insights into developing scalable routing architectures for MANET.