Routing Protocols
in MANETs
CS290F
Winter 2005
What is a MANET
Mobile nodes, wireless links
Infrastructure-less: by the nodes, …
Multi-hop routing: …, and for the nodes
Minimal administration: no hassles
What’s unique about a MANET ?
Moving nodes ever changing topology
Wireless links
various and volatile link quality
Pervasive (cheap) devices
Power constraints
Security
Confidentiality, other attacks
Challenges in MANET Routing
Need dynamic routing
Frequent topological changes possible.
Very different from dynamic routing in the Internet.
Potential of network partitions.
Routing overhead must be kept minimal
Wireless low bandwidth
Mobile low power
Minimize # of routing control messages
Minimize routing state at each node
Other Challenges
Auto configuration issues
Address assignment
Service discovery
Security issues
Ease of denial-of-service attack
Misbehaving nodes difficult to identify
Nodes can be easily compromised
New Applications/services
Location based: Distribute some information to all nodes in a
geographic area (geocast).
Content based: Query all sensors that sensed something
particular in the past hour.
MANET Protocol Zoo
Topology based routing
Proactive approach, e.g., DSDV.
Reactive approach, e.g., DSR, AODV, TORA.
Hybrid approach, e.g., Cluster, ZRP.
Position based routing
Location Services:
DREAM, Quorum-based, GLS, Home zone etc.
Forwarding Strategy:
Greedy, GPSR, RDF, Hierarchical, etc.
Routing Protocols
Reactive (On-demand) protocols
Discover routes when needed
Source-initiated route discovery
Proactive protocols
Traditional distributed shortest-path protocols
Based on periodic updates. High routing overhead
Tradeoff
State maintenance traffic vs. route discovery traffic
Route via maintained route vs. delay for route
discovery
Reactive Routing
Key Goal: Reduction in routing overhead
Useful when number of traffic sessions is much
lower than the number of nodes.
No routing structure created a priori. Let
the structure emerge in response to a
need
Two key methods for route discovery
source routing
backward learning (similar to intra-AS routing)
Introduces delay
Reactive (on-demand) routing:
Routing only when needed
Advantages:
0 eliminate periodic updates
query(0)
reply(0) adaptive to network dynamics
1 query(0) Disadvantages:
query(0) high flood-search overhead
3 with
reply(0)
query(0)
mobility, distributed traffic
query(0)
2 high route acquisition latency
4
query(0)
reply(0) query(0)
5
Reactive Routing – Source initiated
Source floods the network with a route request
packet when a route is required to a destination
Flood is propagated outwards from the source
Pure flooding = every node transmits the request only
once
Destination replies to request
Reply uses reversed path of route request
sets up the forward path
Two key protocols: DSR and AODV
Dynamic Source Routing (DSR)
Cooperative nodes
Relatively small network diameter (5-10 hops)
Detectable packet error
Unidirectional or bidirectional link
Promiscuous mode (optional)
Route Discovery RREQ FORMAT
B Initiator ID
A-B-D-G
A-B-D-G G Initiator seq#
A-B-D-G
A-B Target ID
A D A-B-D
Partial route
A
A-C-E
A E H A-B-C
A-C-E
Route Request (RREQ)
A-C-E
C A-C A-B-C
F Route Reply (RREP)
Route Discovery is issued with exponential back-off intervals.
Route Discovery: at source A
A need to send to G
Lookup Cache for route A to G
Start Route no Route
Discovery Buffer found
packet ?
Protocol
yes
Continue
normal
yes
wait
processing Write route in
packet header
Packet
Route in
Discovery buffer Send
finished ? no
packet to
don
next-hop
e
Route Discovery: At an intermediate node
<src,id> in
Accept route recently Discard
request
yes
seen route
packet requests request
list?
no
Host’s
address yes Discard
already in route
patrial request
route
Append no
myAddr to no
partial route myAdd
r=targ
et
yes
Store <src,id>
in list Send route
reply packet
Broadcast packet
done
DSR - Route Discovery
Route Reply message containing path information is
sent back to the source either by
the destination, or
intermediate nodes that have a route to the
destination
Reverse the order of the route record, and include it in
Route Reply.
Unicast, source routing
Each node maintains a Route Cache which records
routes it has learned and overheard over time
Route Maintenance
Route maintenance performed only while route is in
use
Error detection:
Monitors the validity of existing routes by passively
listening to data packets transmitted at neighboring nodes
Lower level acknowledgements
When problem detected, send Route Error packet to
original sender to perform new route discovery
Host detects the error and the host it was
attempting;
Route Error is sent back to the sender the packet –
original src
Route Maintenance
B
RERR
RERR G
D
G
Route Cache (A)
G: A, B, D, G H
G: A, C, E, H, G E
F: B, C, F
C
F
A Summary of DSR
Entirely on-demand, potentially zero control message
overhead
Trivially loop-free with source routing
Conceptually supports unidirectional links as well as
bidirectional links
High packet delays/jitters associated with on-demand
routing
Space overhead in packets and route caches
Promiscuous mode operations consume excessive
amount of power
Break…
Then AODV
AODV Routing Protocol
S E
F
A
C
G D
B
AODV = Ad Hoc On-demand Distance Vector
Source floods route request in the network.
Reverse paths are formed when a node hears a
route request.
Each node forwards the request only once (pure
flooding).
AODV Route Discovery
S E
F
A
C
G D
B
Source floods route request in the network.
Each node forwards the request only once (pure
flooding).
AODV Route Discovery
S E
F
A
C
G D
B
Uses hop-by-hop routing.
Each node forwards the request only once (pure
flooding).
Reverse paths are formed when a node hears a route
request.
AODV Route Discovery
S E
F
A
C
G D
B
Route reply forwarded via the reverse path.
AODV Route Discovery
S E
F
A
C
G D
B
Route reply is forwarded via the reverse
path … thus forming the forward path.
The forward path is used to route data
packets.
Route Expiry
S E
F
A
C
G D
B
Unused paths expire based on a timer.
AODV – Optimization
Useful optimization: An intermediate node
with a route to D can reply to route request.
Faster operation.
Quenches route request flood.
Above optimization can cause loops in
presence of link failures
AODV: Routing Loops
A B C D
Assume, link C-D fails, and node A does not know
about it (route error packet from C is lost).
C performs a route discovery for D.
Node A receives the route request (via path C-E-A)
Node A replies, since A knows a route to D via node
B
Results in a loop: C-E-A-B-C
AODV: Routing Loops
A B C D
• Assume, the link C-D fails, and node A does not
know about it (route error packet from C is lost).
• C performs a route discovery for D.
• Node A receives the route request (via path C-E-A)
• Node A replies, since A knows a route to D via node
B
• Results in a loop: C-E-A-B-C
AODV: Use Sequence Numbers
Each node X maintains a sequence number
acts as a time stamp
incremented every time X sends any message)
Each route to X (at any node Y) also has X’s
sequence number associated with it, which is
Y’s latest knowledge of X’s sequence number.
Sequence number signifies ‘freshness’ of the
route – higher the number, more up to date is
the route.
Use of Sequence Numbers in AODV
S Y ? D
Dest seq. no. = 10 Has a route to D
with seq. no = 7 Seq. no. = 15
RREQ carries 10 Y does not reply, but
forwards the RREQ
Loop freedom: Intermediate node replies with
a route (instead of forwarding request) only if
it has a route with a higher associated
sequence number.
Avoidance of Loop
DSN = Destination Sequence Number.
9
A B C D
7 9 10
E
5
All DNS’s are for D
Link failure increments the DSN at C (now is 10).
If C needs route to D, RREQ carries the DSN (10).
A does not reply as its own DSN is less than 10.
Path Maintenance
3’ 3’
1 3 1
Destination Destination
2 2
Source 4 Source 4
Movement not along active path triggers no action
If source moves, reinitiate route discovery
When destination or intermediate node moves
upstream node of break broadcasts Route Error (RERR)
RERR contains list of all destinations no longer reachable due
to link break
RERR propagated until node with no precursors for
destination is reached
Summary: AODV
At most one route per destination maintained
at each node
After link break, all routes using the failed link are
erased.
Expiration based on timeouts.
Use of sequence numbers to prevent loops.
Optimizations
Routing tables instead of storing full routes.
Control flooding (incrementally increase ‘region’)
Questions…
Other notes
Acknowledgements
DSR Slides:
Yinzhe Yu (umn.edu)
Additional feature #1: Caching Overheard Routes
Node C Cache
E:
E:C,
C,D,
D,EE
A: C, B, A
Node A Cache Z: C, X, Y, Z
E: A, B, C, D, E V: C, X, W, V
A B C D E
V W X Y Z
Additional feature #2: RREP with Cached Routes
B
RERR
RERR
RREQ
(! D-G) D
G
A
Route Cache (A)
G: A, B, D, G RREQ
RREQ
H
F: B, C, F (! D-G) E
G:A,C,E,H,G (! D-G)
RREP
C
Route Cache (C)
F
G: C, E, D,
H, G
Additional feature #3: Packet Salvage
B
RERR
RERR G
D
G
Route Cache (D)
A G: D, E, H, G
E H
C
F
Caution: No double salvage allowed !!!
Proposed Routing Approaches
Conventional wired-type schemes (global
routing, proactive):
Distance Vector; Link State
Hierarchical (global routing) schemes:
Fisheye, Hierarchical State Routing, Landmark
Routing
On- Demand, reactive routing:
Source routing; backward learning
Location Assisted routing (Geo-routing):
DREAM, LAR etc
Conventional wired routing
limitations
Distance Vector (eg, Bellman-Ford, DSDV):
routing control O/H linearly increasing with net size
convergence problems (count to infinity); potential
loops
Link State (eg, OSPF):
link update flooding O/H caused by frequent
topology changes
CONVENTIONAL ROUTING DOES NOT SCALE TO SIZE AND
MOBILITY
Distance Vector
0
Routing table at node 5 :
1
Destination Next Hop Distance
0 2 3 3
1 2 2
… … …
2
4
Tables grow linearly with # nodes
Control O/H grows with 5
mobility and size
Link State Routing
At node 5, based on the
link state packets, topology 0 {1}
table is constructed:
0 1 2 3 4 5
0 1 1 0 0 0 0 {0,2,3} 1
1 1 1 1 1 0 0
2 0 1 1 0 1 1 3 {1,4}
3 0 1 0 1 1 0
4 0 0 1 1 1 1
5 0 0 1 0 1 1 {1,4,5} 2
4 {2,3,5}
5
Dijkstra’s Algorithm can {2,4}
then be used for the
Existing On-Demand Protocols
Dynamic Source Routing (DSR)
Associativity-Based Routing (ABR)
Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector (AODV)
Temporarily Ordered Routing Algorithm (TORA)
Zone Routing Protocol (ZRP)
Signal Stability Based Adaptive Routing (SSA)
On Demand Multicast Routing Protocol (ODMRP)
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