UP	Paper 322	US-W-W	DOWN
An Entity Stability Measure for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Ayyash,Moussa		Illinois Institute of Technology
Ucci,Donald		Illinois Institute of Technology
Alzoubi,Khalid		Saint Xavier University
Due to the built-in mobility nature of mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), the network topology constantly changes. Consequently, the state information for routing processes is imprecise. Examples of state information that are directly impacted by mobility are: delay, bandwidth, error rates, and jitter. The effect of mobility on the state information is critical to the extent that makes the QoS routing problem extremely complicated and inherently challenging. In this paper we provide an analytical estimation of entity node stability measure (s_{n}). This measure is a new preemptive stability measure that relies on predicting the lifetime of the links.
Mousa S. Ayyash received the B.Sc. degree (1997) in Electrical Engineering/Communications from Mu'tah University, Karak-Jordan, the M.Sc. degree (1999) Electrical Engineering/Communications from University of Jordan, Amman-Jordan, and the Ph.D. degree (2005) in Electrical Engineering/Networking from Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago-USA. Since 1999, he is a faculty member at Robert Morris College at the Department of Computer Information Studies, Chicago-USA. He is also a member of the Wireless Interference Lab (WIL) research group at IIT. Moreover, he worked for Motorola, Inc. as a software engineer for one year. His research interests include wireless sensor and ad hoc networks, quality of service, routing, graph theory, grid computing, ad hoc networks topology management and Wi-Fi interference studies. Dr. Ayyash is a member of the IEE and the IEEE.