Multiple Metrics in MANET with End-to-End QoS Support for Unicast and Multicast Traffic

摘要

The paper proposes an approach of using multiple metrics in a wireless multihop network, when one of the metrics called optimizable reflects consuming network resources, and other metrics called restrictive reflect traffic QoS requirements. Compared to popular Hop Count and Air Time Link metrics, a set of metrics is proposed, increasing the network capacity measured as the number of unicast voice calls with tol erable quality. The metrics are further used in a proposed multicast tree construction algorithm.