A Concept for Radio Standard Spanning Communication in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (original) (raw)

An important aspect in the field of selforganisation in mobile Ad Hoc networks is an efficient crosslinking of all nodes in a high-dynamic network topology. This should be durable against disturbances and partial losses and distribute the net load on all net elements as evenly as possible. Past research approaches limit their solutions to the usage of a homogeneous topology on basis of a unique radio standard. This paper deals with an approach for a communication in mobile Ad Hoc networks, that integrates multiple radio standards. Thereby, the choice of the used radio standard is invisible for the respective application. For the protocol conversion on the hardware side a special interface block is used. Thus enables an economical, radio standard spanning point-to-point communication on basis of the TCP/IP protocol stack. Furthermore, the concept offers the possibility of integrating already existing devices with standardised radio modules into an existing network topology.