Meghadoot

- A Hybrid Wireless architecture

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Contents

• List of Figures
• Introduction
  • Wireless Networks
  • Meghadoot - A Hybrid Network Architecture
    • Advantages of Meghadoot
    • Other Applications
  • Overview of the Project
    • Aims of the Project
    • Scope of the Current Work
  • Organization of this Document
  
  
• Meghadoot Network Architecture
  • Overview of Meghadoot Architecture
  • Control Zone (CZ)
  • Ad hoc Zone (AZ)
  • Communicating Across Zones
  • Backbone Network - Mobility and Internet Access
  
  
• IBAR Protocol Architecture
  • Protocol Messages
  • Control Zone Operation
    • Registration in Control Zone
    • Route Discovery
  • Mobility
    • Mobility within a Control Zone
    • Mobility across Control Zones
  • Data Transmission
    • Packet Origin within Control Zone
    • Packet Origin outside Control Zone
  • Route Maintenance and Errors
  • Optimizations to the Routing Protocol
    • Link Cache instead of a Path Cache
    • A Two Level Route Cache
    • Caching Overheard Routing Information
  
  
• Implementation of the IBAR Protocol
  • Implementation Overview
  • Module Architecture
    • Netfilter
    • Routing and Interaction of Packets with Netfilter
  • Data Structures
    • MN Data Structures
    • IN Data Structures
  
  
• Meghadoot Testbed and Performance Analysis
  • Hardware Setup
  • Software Setup
  • Performance Analysis
  
  
• Conclusions and Future Work
  • Conclusions
  • Future Work
  
  
• Bibliography
• Glossary
• Acronyms