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Towards Efficient and Robust
Multihop Wireless Networks with
Real-Time Media-Rich
Application Support
Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal
Kimaya Mittal
Department of Computer Science
University of California, Santa Barbara
Introduction
• Popularity of wireless networks
– Homes, offices, universities, airports, malls
– Largely access-point-based at present
Access point
Internet
Wireless user
devices
Wireline
connectivity
Kimaya Mittal, Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal
Introduction
• Multihop wireless networks gaining attention
Wireline
connectivity
Internet
Stand-alone (Ad hoc)
Extending Internet connectivity (Mesh)
Kimaya Mittal, Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal
Introduction
• Multihop wireless networks
– Benefits:
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Easy to deploy/extend
Self-configuring
Adaptive
Cost-effective
– Tremendous potential to be technology of
choice for ubiquitous Internet access
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Introduction
• Popularity of real-time media-rich applications
– VoIP, video streaming, gaming, videoconferencing, media-rich messaging
• Must be supported by Internet access
technology
• Strict requirements
– Minimum required throughput
– Maximum tolerable delay and jitter
Kimaya Mittal, Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal
Our Vision
Multihop wireless networks
provide
ubiquitous Internet connectivity
and support diverse applications,
including real-time media-rich
applications, in an efficient and
robust manner
Our focus is on 802.11 and IP-based networks
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Challenges
• Differences between wireless and wired networks
– Shared medium
• Nodes sharing medium may be unable to communicate
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High link error rates
Significantly lower capacity
Resource-constrained devices
Mobility and dynamic topology
Easily accessible to malicious attackers
• Wired network solutions not always applicable
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Wireless Transmission
Characteristics
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Wireless Transmission
Characteristics
Transmission range of P
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Wireless Transmission
Characteristics
Transmission range of P
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Carrier-sense range of P
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Wireless Transmission
Characteristics
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P
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Carrier-sense range of P
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Carrier-sense range of Q
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Our Focus
• Focus on addressing three key challenges
– Shared medium
– Significantly lower capacity
– Easily accessible to malicious attackers
• Motivation
– Very important for realization of our vision
– Previously-proposed solutions lacking
– Significant scope for improvement
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Shared Medium
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Medium shared with carrier-sense neighbors (CSN)
Not all CSN can directly communicate
Potentially different view of medium at each CSN
Medium management challenging
Challenge for realization of vision: How can
requirements of real-time media-rich applications be
met?
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Transmission range
Carrier-sense range
Q W
P
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Low Capacity
• Wireless bandwidth limited and shared
• Multiple hops along path contend for medium
access
– Significant capacity drop
• Hidden terminal and exposed terminal
problems
• Challenge for realization of vision: How can
diverse applications be efficiently supported?
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Accessibility to Malicious
Attackers
• Any device within range can gain access
– Can become part of routing infrastructure
• Security vulnerabilities in several protocols
– Popular routing protocols (AODV, DSR)
• Can be exploited for non-optimal
performance and denial of service
– Compromise of the routing protocol can have farreaching effects on entire network
• Challenge for realization of vision: How can
network be made robust?
Kimaya Mittal, Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal
Dissertation Goals
• To contribute to the realization of our
vision in the following areas:
– Real-time media-rich application support
– Efficient utilization of capacity
– Robustness to malicious behavior
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Contributions
• Real-time media-rich application support
– Perceptive Communication [Tridentcom 06]
– PRP and RRT: Protocols for intra-flow contention
calculation [Broadnets 04, MONET 06]
• Efficient utilization of capacity
– Improvement of 802.11 capacity utilization
(Remaining work)
– Leveraging mobility [Mobiquitous 04, WCMC
Journal (submitted)]
• Robustness to malicious behavior
– Analysis of security vulnerabilities of popular
routing protocols + secure routing protocol (ARAN)
[ICNP 02, JSAC 05]
Kimaya Mittal, Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal
VISION
Multihop wireless networks provide
ubiquitous Internet connectivity and
support diverse applications,
including real-time media-rich
applications, in an efficient and
robust manner
GOALS
Real-time
media-rich
application
support
Efficient
utilization of
capacity
CONTRIBUTIONS
Intra-flow contention
calculation
Leveraging
user
mobility
Authenticated
routing
Network Layer
Perceptive
communication
Improvement of 802.11
capacity utilization
MAC Layer
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Robustness
to malicious
behavior
VISION
Multihop wireless networks provide
ubiquitous Internet connectivity and
support diverse applications,
including real-time media-rich
applications, in an efficient and
robust manner
GOALS
Real-time
media-rich
application
support
Efficient
utilization of
capacity
Robustness
to malicious
behavior
CONTRIBUTIONS
Intra-flow contention
calculation
Leveraging
user
mobility
Authenticated
routing
Network Layer
Perceptive
communication
Improvement of 802.11
capacity utilization
MAC Layer
Kimaya Mittal, Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal
Remaining
Work
Perceptive Communication:
Motivation
• Medium-related operations at a node
depend on/affect medium state at CSN
• Need for communication among CSN
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Transmission range
P
Carrier-sense range
Q
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Examples of Need for
Communication Among CSN
• Support of real-time media-rich
applications requires
– Admission control
– Prioritized medium access
• Need to share information such as
bandwidth consumption and priorities of
existing flows with CSN
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Potential Approaches to
Communicate Among CSN
• Direct communication
– Impossible (CS range > Tx range)
• High-power transmission [Yang 03]
– More energy, less spatial reuse
• Multihop forwarding [Yang 03]
– Requires relay node
• Lower rate transmission code
– May not be supported, may not reach all CSN
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Potential Approaches to
Communicate Among CSN
• Direct communication
CS range
– Impossible (CS range > Tx range)
Tx range
• High-power transmission [Yang 03]
R
T
– More energy, less spatial reuse
Q
P
U
• Multihop forwarding [Yang 03]
– Requires relay node
S
• Lower rate transmission code
– May not be supported, may not reach all CSN
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Potential Approaches to
Communicate Among CSN
• Direct communication
CS range
– Impossible (CS range > Tx range)
Tx range
• High-power transmission [Yang 03]
R
T
– More energy, less spatial reuse
Q
P
U
• Multihop forwarding [Yang 03]
– Requires relay node
S
High power
• Lower rate transmission code
Tx range
– May not be supported, may not reach all CSN
Kimaya Mittal, Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal
Potential Approaches to
Communicate Among CSN
• Direct communication
CS range
– Impossible (CS range > Tx range)
Tx range
• High-power transmission [Yang 03]
R
T
– More energy, less spatial reuse
Q
P
U
• Multihop forwarding [Yang 03]
– Requires relay node
S
• Lower rate transmission code
– May not be supported, may not reach all CSN
Kimaya Mittal, Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal
Potential Approaches to
Communicate Among CSN
• Direct communication
CS range
– Impossible (CS range > Tx range)
Tx range
• High-power transmission [Yang 03]
T
R
– More energy, less spatial reuse
Q
P
U
• Multihop forwarding [Yang 03]
– Requires relay node
S
Lower rate
• Lower rate transmission code
Tx range
– May not be supported, may not reach all CSN
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Perceptive Communication
• During transmission, change in carrier signal
perceived by CSN
• Certain characteristics can be detected
– Duration of transmission
– Silence between transmissions
• Information encoded in perceivable
characteristics
– Can be inferred by CSN by monitoring carrier
signal, packet need not be decoded
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Detection of Perceptive
Characteristics
• Node records received signal strength
(RSS) continuously (i.e. in every time
slot)
• Tracks signal strength over time
• Identifies transmissions and silences
from this information
• Measures their durations
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Detection of Transmission
Duration
• Idealized graph of
signal strength vs.
time
• Packet Y sensed, not
decoded
• Duration of packet Y
(Ty) perceived
• Information encoded
in and inferred from
Ty
RSS
RxThresh
CSThresh
X
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Y
Ty
time
Detection of Silence Duration
• Every transmission
RSS
preceded by preframe
• Inter-frame space
perceived, duration
RxThresh
(Ts) detected
• Ts < Tdifs (inter-packet CSThresh
space)
• Information encoded
in and inferred from
Ts
Pre-frame
Inter-frame space
Packet
Inter-packet space
Y
Ts
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Tdifs
Time
Application of Perceptive
Communication
• Application-specific codebook
– Maps transmission durations or inter-frame
space durations to meanings
• Examples
– Communication of identity through size of
Hello messages
• Size modified by appending ‘tail’
– Communication of packet priority through
duration of inter-frame space
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Testbed Evaluation
• Motivation
– Do actual graphs of signal strength vs. time
resemble ideal graphs?
– How accurately can perceptive characteristics be
measured on wireless hardware?
• Implementation
– Prototype implementation on Mica2 mote
• Only platform with API for per-slot RSS
– RSSI sampling in alternate time slots
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Simple Test Scenario
• Single transmitter
– Placed within few inches of receiver
– Transmits 100 packets
• 10 packets per second
• 20 bytes payload
• Single receiver
– Samples RSS in every time slot
– Processes RSS readings to identify transmissions
• Simplistic algorithm
– Infers payload size from detected transmission
duration
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Plot of RSSI vs. Time
Ack
Data
Noise
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Payload Size Detection in Simple
Test Scenario
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Analysis
• All packets detected within +/- 2 bytes
• 2-byte detection error unavoidable
– RSSI sampling in alternate slots
– Time slots of receiver and transmitter not
perfectly synchronized
• In remaining results, detection within +/2 bytes considered correct
• Silence detection results similar
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Experiment: Effect of
Received Signal Strength
• Experiment setup similar to simple test
scenario
• Magnitude of RSS varied by changing
transmit power of sender
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Effect of Received Signal Strength
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Perceptive Communication:
Conclusions
• Perceptive communication among CSN
feasible and effective on wireless
hardware
• Some error in detection unavoidable
– Should be accounted for in protocol design
• More sophisticated detection algorithm
can further improve accuracy
Kimaya Mittal, Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal
Perceptive Communication:
Impact
• Powerful mechanism
• Creates new possibilities for managing
wireless medium
• Several potential applications in
prioritized MAC, admission control,
bandwidth estimation, channel
assignment, power control, etc.
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Determination of Intra-Flow
Contention: Motivation
• Network capacity limited, may not be
able to support all flows requesting
access
• Admission control necessary
• Need to estimate bandwidth
consumption of new flow for admission
control decision
• Non-trivial due to intra-flow contention
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What is Intra-Flow
Contention?
• Nodes along a multihop path may lie within
each other’s carrier-sense range
• This leads to intra-flow contention
Carrier-sensing range
of node Y
Z
Y
W
Packets of flow F contend for medium
access at nodes W, X and Y
X
Flow F
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What is Intra-Flow
Contention?
• Due to intra-flow contention, bandwidth
consumption of a flow at a node becomes a
multiple of that requested by the application
Carrier-sensing range
of node Y
Z
Y
W
X
Bandwidth consumed by flow F at
nodes W, X, Y each is 3 times the
single-hop bandwidth
Flow F
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Contention Count
• Contention Count (CC) at a node =
Intersection of (set of carrier-sensing
neighbors) with (set of nodes on multihop
path) + 1
• Bandwidth consumption of flow =
CC x (single-hop bandwidth consumption)
• To estimate bandwidth consumption, CC
must be calculated
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Calculation of Contention
Count
• Previous approaches
– Contention-Aware Admission Control (CACP)
[Yang et al. 03]
• High power transmissions to communicate with CSN
• Our approaches
– Pre-Reply Probe (PRP) and Route Request Tail
(RRT)
– Use our perceptive communication techniques
to communicate with CSN
– Integrated with reactive route discovery
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Comparison of PRP/RRT with
CACP
• Main benefits
– Reduced energy consumption
– Reduced network overhead
• Main drawback
– Error in CC calculation when collisions
occur (No more than +/- 1 in our
simulations)
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Remaining Work: Improving
Capacity Utilization of 802.11
• Hidden terminal and exposed terminal
problems well-known artifacts of CSMA
protocols
• Result in wasted network capacity
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What are Hidden Terminals?
Carrier-sense range
P
Q
S
R
Nodes P and R
cannot carrier
sense each other
and transmit
simultaneously,
causing collisions
at one or both
receivers
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What are Exposed Terminals?
Carrier-sense range
Q
S
P
R
Nodes P and R
cannot transmit
simultaneously due
to carrier sensing,
even though their
transmissions do
not mutually
interfere
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Hidden and Exposed Terminals
• Hidden terminals waste capacity through
collisions
• Exposed terminals waste capacity through
missed opportunities to transmit
• Prevalence of hidden and exposed terminals
depends on topology and carrier sense range
– Large CS range => More exposed terminals
– Small CS range => More hidden terminals
– Inherent tradeoff
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Alleviation of Hidden and Exposed
Terminals: Previous Work
• RTS/CTS
– Does not address exposed terminals
• Adjusting CS range
– Eliminating hidden terminals [Chakeres 04,
Fuemmeler 04]
– Reducing exposed terminals [Vasan 05]
– Achieving optimal balance [Zhai 06, Zhu
06]
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Proposed Contribution
• Can a solution be designed to eliminate both
hidden and exposed terminals
simultaneously?
– Adjustment of CS range clearly not enough
• Proposed Approach
– Set CS range to sufficiently large value to
eliminate hidden terminals
– Modify protocol to discover and alleviate exposed
terminals
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Challenges
• Detection of exposed terminals
– Distance-based assumptions naïve
• Keeping information up-to-date
– Interference characteristics may vary with
time
• Coordination of simultaneous
transmissions
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Potential benefit
• Qualnet simulation of random topology of 20
nodes in a 600m x 600m area shows 90 pairs
of mutually exposed links
– This is without increasing CS range to avoid
hidden terminals
– Hardware limitations currently prevent testbed
evaluation
• Indicates potential benefit of proposed
approach
Kimaya Mittal, Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal
VISION
Multihop wireless networks
provide
ubiquitous Internet
connectivity and support
diverse applications,
including real-time media-rich
applications, in an efficient
and robust manner
GOALS
Real-time
Efficient
Robustness
media-rich
utilization of to malicious
application
capacity
behavior
support
CONTRIBUTIONS
Intra-flow contention
calculation
Leveraging
user
mobility
Authenticated
routing
Network Layer
Perceptive
communication
MAC Layer
Improvement of 802.11
capacity utilization
Conclusions
• Dissertation
contributes
towards solving
important
problems
towards
realization of our
vision
• Significantly
advances stateof-the-art
• Creates new
avenues for
further research
Kimaya Mittal, Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal
Thank You!
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