Section: New Results

Routing in MANETs using slotted Aloha. End-to-end delays

Participants : Paul Mühlethaler, Iskander Banaouas.

This is a joint work with TREC: B. Blaszczyzyn.

Planar Poisson models with the Aloha medium access scheme have already proved to be very useful in studies of mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs). However, it seems difficult to quantitatively study the performances of end-to-end routing in these models. In order to tackle this problem, in this paper we study a linear stationary route embedded in an independent planar field of interfering nodes. We consider this route as an idealization of a “typical” route in a MANET obtained by some routing mechanism. Such a decoupling allows us to obtain many numerically tractable expressions for local and mean end-to-end delays and the speed of packet progression, assuming slotted Aloha MAC and the Signal-to-Interference-and-Noise Ratio (SINR) capture condition, with the usual power-law path loss model and Rayleigh fading. These expressions show how the network performance depends on the tuning of Aloha and routing parameters and on the external noise level. In particular we show a need for a well-tuned lattice structure of fixed relaying nodes, which helps to relay packets on long random routes in the presence of a non-negligible noise. We also consider a Poisson-line MANET model, in which all nodes are located on roads forming a Poisson-line process. In this case our linear route is rigorously (in the sense of Palm theory) the typical route in this Poisson-line MANET.