Design of Knowledge Discovery Agent for a Bit-Map on Ad Hoc Mobile Networks
HangKon Kim1
, SungSoo Lee2
and ChongGun Kim2 
| (1) |
Deptartment of Computer Information Communication, Catholic University of Daegu, |
| (2) |
Department of Computer Engineering, Yeungnam University, |
Abstract
A main nature of ad hoc mobile networks is frequent change on their topology that is the source of many problems to be solved.
AODV is an on-demand routing protocol for decreasing maintenance overhead on ad hoc networks. But some path breaks can cause
significant overhead and transmission delays. If the maintenance overhead of routing table can be reduced, table-driven routing
methods could be an efficient substitution. In this paper, we propose a knowledge discovery agent for an effective routing
method that is using the simple bit-map topology information. The agent node gathers topology knowledge and creates topology
bit-map information. All paths for source to destination can easily be calculated by the bit-map. All the other nodes on the
network maintain the bit-map distributed from agent and uses it for routing. Correctness of the proposed agent method is verified
by computer simulations.
Keywords a knowledge discovery agent - Ad hoc networks - AODV - table-driven routing - bit-map table - reducing overhead
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