Leader election and initialization are two fundamental problems in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). The leader can serve as a coordinator in the MANETs and the initialization protocol can assign each host a unique and short id. As we know that none of the research on initialization for IEEE 802.11-based MANETs has been done. Here, we proposed two contention-based leader election and initialization protocols for IEEE 802.11-based single-hop MANETs. Simulation results show that our protocols are efficient.
Index Terms:
initialization, leader election, mobile ad hoc network (MANET)
Citation:
Chih-Shun Hsu, Jang-Ping Sheu, "Initialization Protocols for IEEE 802.11-Based Ad Hoc Networks," icpads, pp.273, Ninth International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS'02), 2002