MAPNaS: A Lightweight, Locality-Aware Peer-to-Peer Based Name Service for MANETs

Name services for mobile ad hoc networks are essential to discover and bind resources given by their name or URI to a specific network address. As there is no fixed infrastructure available in MANETs, nodes cannot rely on any DNS-like system as is taken for granted in the Internet. To keep up with the dynamicity of MANETs, a name service needs to be flexible and scalable. For this purpose, we propose MAPNaS (Mobile Ad-hoc Peerto-Peer Name Service), a lightweight and localityaware peer-to-peer based name service. MAPNaS runs on top of MADPastry [4], a general-purpose DHT substrate especially designed for MANETs. Through simulation we compare the performance of MAPNaS – both in terms of the success rate and overall network traffic – against an unstructured, broadcast-based reference approach. We will thereby demonstrate how to efficiently build a peer-to-peer based name service in mobile ad hoc networks.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: LCN
• Authors: Thomas Zahn, Jochen H. Schiller
• Keywords: LCN 2005, Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Name Service, Specific Network Address