Design and Development of ECA based Routing Protocols for Ubiquitous Network

Abstract

The ubiquitous network is a heterogeneous wireless network comprising of computing devices such as laptops, smartphones, tablets, PDAs, etc., are connected to any device at any time, anywhere that enabling mobile users to access and exchange information through network access technologies such as Wi-Fi, Wi-Max, 5G, Bluetooth, UMTS and so on. The Ubiquitous Network (UN) fragmented into subnetworks in which mobile nodes of one subnetwork can exchange information with other mobile nodes in another subnetwork via network access technologies. The optimal route establishment is vital to exchange packets starting from the originating node to the desired destination. It is important to design and build routing protocols that play a crucial role in diverting the packets to different routes through an optimal path from the originating node to the ultimate destination. In essence, reactive and proactive routing protocols are designed and developed to determine the optimal routes for the network-wide propagation of control and data packets. The UN mobile nodes move in an arbitrary direction and frequently join or depart the UN at any point in time. Many routing-related issues have emerged due to node mobility, such as frequent network topology change, link failure, node disappearance, high latency, packet loss, etc. To provide the solution to the preceding issues, we design and develop routing protocols for the ubiquitous network using the Event Condition Action (ECA) scheme. The objectives of the thesis is to design solutions to some of the ubiquitous network routing issues...