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Dynamic Quality-of-Service
for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
April 2000
Duncan Thomson, The MITRE Corporation
Nancy Schult, The MITRE Corporation
Mohammad Mirhakkak, The MITRE Corporation
ABSTRACT
In this paper we discuss the dynamic network characteristics of mobile
ad hoc networks, and explore problems that arise when attempting to
provide QoS support in this environment. A dynamic approach to Quality
of Service (QoS) is presented as a possible solution to these problems.
With this approach, resource reservations represent ranges, and applications
adapt to an allocated level of QoS provided by the network at some point
within the requested range. To explore this approach, we have implemented
a new protocol called dynamic RSVP (dRSVP), which is an extension to
RSVP. We describe this protocol and our implementation and testbed,
and discuss its applicability to mobile ad hoc networks. We survey related
work by other authors, and discuss the unique features of our work.
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