A decentralized traffic management approach for ambient networks environments

Abstract

This paper presents a decentralized traffic management solution suitable for Ambient Networks environments, where heterogeneous networks will have to cooperate with a high degree of dynamicity, both in traffic patterns and network topologies. Considering IP as the base inter-network technology in these environments, the proposed mechanism autonomously interacts with existing intra-domain routing protocols to improve traffic performance. The proposal has been evaluated by simulation and has been shown how it significantly improves the traffic performance with respect to the solutions currently deployed in networks. For the two simulated scenarios, the proposed solution is able to manage 38% and 15% more traffic than current solutions when the network starts to be congested. Anyway, the behavior of the proposed solution is currently being analyzed in more dynamic scenarios in order to check its goodness for different Ambient Networks environments. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2005.