Designing a Routing Protocol for Ubiquitous Networks Using ECA Scheme

Abstract: We have designed a novel Event-Condition-Action(ECA) scheme based Ad hoc On-demand Distance Vector(ECA-AODV) routing protocol for a Ubiquitous Network(UbiNet). ECA-AODV is designed to make routing decision dynamically and quicker response to dynamic network conditions as and when event occur. ECA scheme essentially consists of three modules to make runtime routing decision quicker. First, event module receive event that occur in a UbiNet and split up event into event type and event attributes. Second, condition module obtain event details from event module split up each condition into condition attributes that matches event and fire the rule as soon as condition hold. Third, action module make runtime decisions based on event obtained and condition applied. We have simulated and tested the designed ECA scheme by considering ubiquitous museum environment as a case study with nodes range from 10 to 100. The simulation results show the time efficient with minimal operations