MANETs interoperability: current trends and open research

Jose Alfredo Alvarez Aldana (1, 2, 3) , Stephane Maag (4, 1, 2, 3) , Fatiha Zaidi (5)

1 TSP - RS2M - Département Réseaux et Services Multimédia Mobiles
2 SAMOVAR - Services répartis, Architectures, MOdélisation, Validation, Administration des Réseaux
3 CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
4 METHODES-SAMOVAR - Méthodes et modèles pour les réseaux
5 LRI - Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique

Wireless networks have gained wide attention inrecent years including studies on Mobile Ad-hoc Networks(MANET). Among the rich literature produced by the re-searchers, the problematic of MANET interoperability is be-coming of high interest. Interoperability in a MANET refers tothe communication between two separate domains or networks.This is an important research area aiming at enhancing theoverall communication between MANETs. There are multipleproposals in the literature that study MANET interoperability.Their variability shows an energetic work and interesting pro-posals, in theory and in practice. The objective of this paperis to survey the main MANET works in the literature throughdifferent identified key aspects. We presented a comprehensiveanalysis of multiple proposals, techniques, features, opportunities,limitations and omissions. Based on that, we aim at guiding theresearchers, practitioners and industrials who work on MANETsthat interoperate

Mots clés: Interoperability; MANETs

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Jose Alfredo Alvarez Aldana, Stephane Maag, Fatiha Zaidi. MANETs interoperability: current trends and open research. WAINA 2018: 32nd International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops, May 2018, Krakow, Poland. pp.481 - 487, ⟨10.1109/WAINA.2018.00132⟩. ⟨hal-01976999⟩