Lessons learned from the simulation experience of a three-tier multi-hop wireless Internet architecture

摘要

The mobile Internet provides mobile nodes with continuous access to the Internet resources. This type of service is guaranteed only if these mobile nodes are one-hop away from the edge of the Internet. Mobile ad hoc networks (MANET), however, enable multi-hop communication between mobile nodes. A more promising goal would be to connect MANET to the Internet, thus enabling mobile nodes to benefit from the multi-hop nature of MANET so they can to share access to the Internet resources with the stationary nodes. This paper aims to study a three-tier architecture to provide MANET nodes with multi-hop Internet connectivity, evaluate its performance through extensive experiments with respect to a set of decision parameters, and outline the lessons learned from these experiments. (C) 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.