A Demand-Oriented Information Retrieval Method on MANET

In urban areas including shopping malls and stations with many people, it is important to utilize various information which those people have obtained. In this paper, we propose a method for information registration and retrieval in MANET which achieves small communication cost and short response time. In our method, we divide the whole application field into multiple sub-areas and classify records into several categories so that mobile terminals in an area holds records with a category. Each area is associated with a category so that the number of queries for the category becomes the largest in the area. Thus, mobile users search records with a certain category by sending a query to nodes in the particular area using existing protocol such as LBM (Location-Based Multicast). Through simulations supposing actual urban area near Osaka station, we have confirmed that our method achieves practical communication cost and performance for information retrieval in MANET.