Control de topología soportado por técnicas de clustering aplicado a redes ad hoc

Abstract

A MANET is an autonomous collection of mobile users that communicate over relatively bandwidth constrained wireless links. Since the nodes are mobile, the network topology may change rapidly and unpredictably over time. The network is decentralized, where all network activity including discovering the topology and delivering messages must be executed by the nodes themselves, i.e., routing functionality will be incorporated into mobile nodes. Our routing protocol tries to give a satisfactory solution to these problems. It fulfils a hierarchical routing by means of the creation of clusters using AI algorithms (neural networks, fuzzy logic) adapted to a distributed stage. These skills allow to reduce the sending of control packets, as well as to find routes of more efficient form and to adapt better to the topological changes.