Performance evaluation of a DUT-based approach to resource discovery in mobile ad hoc networks

Recently, approaches to DHT-style key-based routing explicitly designed for the use in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) have been proposed. However, as DHTs are usually no applications as such, a very practical distributed application running on top of such mobile DHTs could be resource discovery. Therefore, in this paper, a DHT-based approach to resource discovery -MAPNaS- will be described in detail and thoroughly evaluated through simulations. We aim at gaining a first insight into the question under which network conditions it is meaningful to perform DHT-based resource discovery and when it would be more advisable to opt for a less complex-e.g. a simple broadcast-based-approach instead