PREDICTIVE ROUTING IN MOBILE AD HOC NETWORK

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide predictive searching of routes in a mobile ad hoc network.

SOLUTION: The mobile ad hoc network includes a plurality of wireless mobile nodes and a plurality of wireless communication links connecting the nodes together. A method for managing and controlling the search and maintenance of routes in the network includes predicting future-needed routes or the need for future communications in the network, and predicting future-network dynamics or topology. Partial and complete routes are searched along predicted future-needed routes based upon the predicted need for routes and the predicted network dynamics or topology. Route tables are built and updated at each mobile node with a route search process to store the partial and complete routes in the network.

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