Publish/subscribe architecture for mobile ad hoc networks

Publish/Subscribe architectures have been widely studied and applied in wired networks. However, their deployment on mobile ad hoc networks still presents a lot of challenges. This work proposes and analyzes a solution for such networks using the nodes' movement to disseminate publications to the whole network with few transmissions. Our proposal does not build dissemination trees which incur in a high cost to keep them updated due to constant changes in the topology, and does not even require beacons exchanges in order to sustain a neighborhood table. Our experiments show that we are able to achieve better results than a gossipbased algorithm and other solutions found in the literature. Categories and Subject Descriptors C.2.1 [Computer-Communication Networks]: Network Architecture and Design General Terms Distributed Algorithms Keywords Publish/Subscribe, MANETs, mobile computing

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: SAC
• Authors: Cristiano G. Rezende, Bruno P. S. Rocha, Antonio Alfredo Ferreira Loureiro
• Keywords: Applied Computing, Architecture, Dissemination Trees, Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, SAC 2008