MultiServ: A Service-Oriented Framework for Multihop Wireless Networks

Abstract—In order to enable fast deployment of new emerging services over multihop wireless networks, it is important to design an efficient service-based platform with the necessary traffic man-agement capabilities. In this paper, we propose a new distributed service-oriented framework for wireless multihop networks, called MultiServ, in which it adopts a quantitative approach toward op-timal traffic distribution. Under Multiserv framework, an efficient overlay network can be easily constructed that can greatly facili-tate the deployment of new services. We use media streaming and application level multicast as examples to illustrate how the ser-vices can be supported. The performance results demonstrate that MultiServ can substantially outperform the conventional approach and achieves comparable performance obtained by a centralized scheme. Index Terms—Overlay networks, traffic engineering, wireless multihop networks