Implementation of P2P Computing in Design of MANET Routing Protocol

The study of peer-to-peer network and mobile ad hoc network (MANET) are currently two hotspots in distributed computing and mobile communication researching domain. By building up a P2P overlay network on top of MANET's physical infrastructure, we effectively integrated P2P network's advantage on sustaining highly dynamic network into the design of MANET routing protocol. By deploying passive MANET routing algorithms with innovative P2P routing mechanisms, we propose a new kind of MANET routing protocol named peer computing based dynamic source routing (PDSR). A detailed description of the P2P decentralized naming, route discovering, route querying and updating algorithm used in PDSR is presented in this paper. The simulation results indicate that PDSR has an improved routing performance in comparison with the popularly used DSR protocol