Alternatives to Binary Routing Policies Applied to a Military MANET Coalition

Florian Grandhomme (1) , Gilles Guette (1) , Adlen Ksentini (2) , Thierry Plesse (3)

1 CIDRE - Confidentialité, Intégrité, Disponibilité et Répartition
2 EUROCOM
3 DGA.MI - DGA Maîtrise de l'information

New generation radio equipment, used by soldiers and vehicles on the battlefield, form ad hoc networks and specifically, Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANET). The battlefields where these equipment are deployed include a majority of coalition communication. Each group on the battleground may communicate with other members of the coalition and establish inter-MANET links. These inter-MANET links are governed by routing policies that can be summarized as Allowed or Denied link. However, if more than two groups form a coalition, blocked multi-hop communications and non-desired transmissions due to these restrictive policies would appear. In this paper, we present these blocking cases and theoretically evaluate their apparition frequency. Then, we present two alternatives to extend the binary policies and decrease the number of blocking cases. Finally, we describe an experimental scenario containing a blocking case and evaluate our propositions and their performance.

Mots clés: policy; routing; inter- domain; ad hoc

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Florian Grandhomme, Gilles Guette, Adlen Ksentini, Thierry Plesse. Alternatives to Binary Routing Policies Applied to a Military MANET Coalition. IWCMC 2018 - 14th International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference, Jun 2018, Limassol, Cyprus. pp.1-6, ⟨10.1109/IWCMC.2018.8450393⟩. ⟨hal-01851409⟩