Declarative Policy-Based Adaptive Mobile Ad Hoc Networking

—This paper presents DAWN, a declarative platform that creates highly adaptive policy-based MANET protocols. DAWN leverages declarative networking techniques to achieve extensible routing and forwarding using declarative languages. We make the following contributions. First, we demonstrate that traditional MANET protocols can be expressed in a concise fashion as declarative networks and policy-driven adaptation can be specified in the same language to dictate the dynamic selection of different protocols based on various network and traffic conditions. Second, we propose inter-protocol forwarding techniques that ensure packets are able to seamlessly traverse across clusters of nodes running different protocols selected based on their respective policies. Third, we have developed a fullfledged implementation of DAWN using the RapidNet declarative networking system. We experimentally validate a variety of policy-based adaptive MANETs in various dynamic settings using a combination of...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2012
• Where: TON
• Authors: Changbin Liu, Ricardo Correa, Xiaozhou Li, Prithwish Basu, Boon Thau Loo, Yun Mao
• Keywords: Concise Fashion, Declarative Languages, MANET Routing Protocols, Programming Languages, TON 2012