Uisce: Characteristic-based routing in mobile ad hoc networks

Abstract

The goal of communication in computer networks is the delivery of information to endpoints with certain properties. In wired networks, identities such as IP addresses are used to guide information through a network and the properties of network nodes are mapped to these identities by service discovery mechanisms. In mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), identities lose their guiding ability because of the dynamism of the topology.