Enhancement of Self-organisation in Wireless Networking through a Cross-Layer Approach

Self-organisation has emerged as a very promising approach to the design, deployment, operation, control and evolution of complex wireless networks. The dominant strictly layered design style may however not be able to accommodate many useful optimisations, and we conjecture that cross-layer design may offer a more promising approach. In support of this conjecture we demonstrate through simulation-based approach a cross-layer approach to routing in wireless ad hoc networks that exhibits high degrees of self-configuration, self-optimisation and self-healing. Simulation studies show a substantial improvement in selforganisation properties of wireless networks over comparable layered designs. Key words: Self-organisation, Strict-layer, Cross-layer

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: ADHOCNETS
• Authors: Mohammad Abdur Razzaque, Simon A. Dobson, Paddy Nixon
• Keywords: ADHOCNETS 2009, Computer Networks, Layered Designs, Promising Approach, Wireless Networks