AN ENHANCED MAC PROTOCOL STACK FOR MANETs
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چکیده
This paper deals with design goals to provide seamless connection to the Internet when mobile hosts roam between MANETs and to achieve load-balancing routing when mobile hosts have multiple gateways available. We address three issues in this paper namely IP address resolution, mobility management under NAT structure, and load-balancing routing. Mobile IP and NAT traversal are adopted to provide seamless roaming capability in private networks. A load-balancing routing protocol was implemented to relieve the bottleneck problem. A prototype is implemented on Windows platform to verify our architecture and test results do show the benefit of load-balancing routing.
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