Measurement and application of link reliability for wireless mobile networks

Abstract

Radio channel characteristics of mobile nodes are quite different compared with the traditional stationary base station to mobile radio channel. Wireless link reliability estimation is necessary for self-organization of wireless mobile multihop networks. In this paper, we measure narrowband path loss measurements in a typical mobile-to-mobile radio environment. For application, we proposed a method to incorporate link reliability into path reliability evaluation and selection for multipath routing in wireless mobile networks. Simulations show that the proposed method has better performance.