Adhoc mobile wireless network enhancement based on cisco devices

International Journal of Computer Networks & Communications (IJCNC) Vol.7, No.1, January 2015
DOI : 10.5121/ijcnc.2015.7107 99
ADHOC MOBILE WIRELESS NETWORK
ENHANCEMENT BASED ON CISCO DEVICES
Mohamed E. Khedr, Mohamed S. Zaghloul and Mohamed I. El-Desouky
Department of Electronics and Communications, Arab Academy for Science, Tech. and
Maritime Transport, Alexandria, Egypt, BOX 1029
ABSTRACT
Adhoc wireless networks become one of the most researchable areas in the studying of routing protocols
depending on the Open System Interconnection (OSI Model). This paper use Cisco devices as a reference
to enhance the performance of the network. This enhancement will be due to high processing, reliability,
average cost, power consumption and accessibility. The aim of this research not only to get the cost down,
it also to choose a time to time device to process the data as rapid as it can. Using NAT, Access List and
DHCP protocols defined in Cisco (Graphical Unit Interface) GUI of the (Command Line Interface) CLI,
the task can be made.
KEYWORDS
Adhoc, Wireless Networks, Cisco Access Points, Adhoc using Cisco devices.
1.INTRODUCTION
Cisco a leading networking company all over the world right now with the highest sales rates all
over the world becomes the first premiere networks company in our time.[1] So, in this paper we
will define, illustrate and configure some of routing protocols,(Domain Name Server) DNS,
(Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)DHCP and Access List (ACL) and (Network Address
Translation) NAT that can be used during the communication ways with all data packets of
sending and receiving processes. The usage of Cisco real routers and switches will give us an
advance in high data processing. So, our goal can be targeted definitely is the “Time” of sending,
receiving and acknowledgment due to the TCP/IP protocol called by 3 ways hand shake. In
addition use to the encryption and the last step using (Wi-Fi Protected Access) WPA/WPA2
technologies. [2]
2.ILLUSTRATING THE PROBLEM
Our main goal is not to make the adhoc terminal only under the coverage area and always
connected, but also with a very good communication timing during sending and receiving. Our
main problem that there are no coordinators in the schema. this is not a huge problem but can be
define it as advantage, that’s why all intermediate devices will be coordinators for the other end

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devices and replication of the routing tables will be the major aid due to the geographical case of
adhoc terminals movements, though its remains a problem due to adhoc well defined protocol.
High security is the second main goal, but as known wireless networking security is weak a bit,
so this research will consider it step by step.
3.USED NETWORK’S DEVICES
Networks devices are needed in this paper to be selected due to certain specifications for
outdoors, indoors and controllers.
1.Indoors (end points): Aironet 3700 Series (Power over Ethernet) (POE)
Fig.1. Aironet 3700 series
2.Outdoors (Coordinators):Aironet 1532E Series (Power over Ethernet) (POE)
Fig2. Aironet 1532E
3.Controllers (Routers): Catalyst 2800 series with 2 smart serial module, (2.4 and 5.0 GHz)
wireless module and Sim card module
Fig.3. Cisco 2800 Series Catalyst Router

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4.Fast Ethernet and smart serial cables to connect controllers with outdoors
4.ESTIMATED SCHEMA TO DEAL WITH
To illustrate the whole case issue, a simulation software is used called “Cisco packet Tracer
V6.0.1”
Fig4. Whole Schema using simulation Packet Tracer
This whole schema shows how this paper will operate over 3 layers
1- Core Layer (Controllers)
2- Outdoor Coordinator
3- End points
And now it’s the time to prepare the devices for configuration but there are some protocols and
options that can be defined and considered.
5.NETWORK ADDRESS TRANSLATION (NAT):
To go to the Internet a public IP address must be available and it is unique all over the world. If
each host in the world required a unique public IP address, IPs will be run over a few years. But
by using Network Address Translation (NAT) huge number of IPs van be saved. So, NAT can be
defined: “NAT allows a host that does not have a valid registered IP address to communicate with
other hosts through the Internet”. For example a computer is assigned by private IP address of
10.0.0.9 and of course this address cannot be routed on the internet but you can still access the
internet. This is because your router (or modem) translates this address into a public IP address,
123.12.23.1.For example, before routing your data into the internet [3].

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Fig5. NAT Illustration
Of course when a router receives a reply packet destined for 123.12.23.1 it will convert back to
the private IP 10.0.0.9 before sending that packet to source.
Suppose an organization has 500 end points but the Internet Service Provider (ISP) only gives 50
public IP addresses. It means that the organization can only allow 50 hosts to access the internet
at the same time. Here NAT comes to save this case!
One thing that should be noticed in real life, not all of end devices uses internet at the same time.
Using NAT can dynamically assign these 50 public IP addresses to those who really need them at
that time. This is called dynamic NAT.
But the above NAT solution does not solve the problem completely because in some days there
can be more than 50 end points using the network. In this case, only the first 50 people can access
internet, others must wait to their turns.
Another problem is, in fact, ISP only gives much lesser IP addresses than the number 50 because
each public IP is very precious now. To solve the two problems above, another feature of NAT
can be used: NAT Overload or sometimes called Port Address Translation(PAT) PAT permits
multiple devices on a local area network (LAN) to be mapped to a single public IP address with
different port numbers. Therefore, it’s also known as port address translation (PAT). When using
PAT, the router maintains unique source port numbers on the inside global IP address to
distinguish between translations. In the below example, each host is assigned to the same public
which is IP address 123.1.1.1 1 but with different port numbers (from 1000 to 1002).

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Fig6. PAT Example
Table1: PAT Table
Inside Local Inside global
10.0.0.1 123.1.1.1:1000
10.0.0.2 123.1.1.1:1001
10.0.0.3 123.1.1.1:1003
Cisco uses the term inside local for the private IP addresses and inside global for the public IP
addresses replaced by the router. The outside host IP address can also be changed with NAT. The
outside global address represents the outside host with a public IP address that can be used for
routing in the public Internet. NAT will be used while configuring the devices
6.ACCESS LIST CONTROL
Access control lists (ACLs) is equivalent to packets filtering by allowing the coordinator or the
admin to permit or deny IP packets from specific end point of interface. To use ACLs, the system
administrator must first configure ACLs and then apply them to specific interfaces. There are 3
popular types of ACL: Standard, Extended and Named ACLs [4].
And will be used to configure the devices.
7.IEEE 802.11 STANDARDS
At the time, there are 3 foundations effect on wireless LAN standards all over the world [5] and
listed as bellow:
- ITU-R: is responsible for allocation of the RF bands
- IEEE: specifies how RF is modulated to transfer data
- Wi-Fi Alliance: improves the interoperability of wireless products among vendors but the most
popular type of wireless LAN today is based on the IEEE 802.11 standard, which is known
informally as Wi-Fi. Access points can support several or all of the three most popular IEEE

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WLAN standards including 802.11a, 802.11b and 802.11g. WLAN has two basic modes of
operation: Ad-hoc mode In this mode devices send data directly to each other and the
Infrastructure mode and used to Connect to a wired LAN, supports two modes (service sets):
Basic Service Set (BSS): uses only a single AP to create a WLAN and Extended Service Set
(ESS): uses more than one AP to create a WLAN, allows roaming in a larger area than a single
AP. [6]
8.ORTHOGONAL DIVISION MULTIPLEXING (OFDM)
The purpose is to encode a single transmission into multiple subcarriers to save bandwidth.
OFDM selects channels that overlap but do not interfere with each other by selecting the
frequencies of the subcarriers so that at each subcarrier frequency, all other subcarriers do not
contribute to overall waveform. In the picture below, notice that only the peaks of each subcarrier
carry data. [7] At the peak of each of the subcarriers, the other two subcarriers have zero
amplitude.
Fig7. OFDM Sub-carriers
9.DIRECT SEQUENCE SPREAD SPECTRUM (DSSS)
This method transmits the signal over a wider frequency band than required by multiplying the
original user data with a pseudo random spreading code. The result is a wide-band signal which is
very “durable” to noise. Even some bits in this signal are damaged during transmission; some
statistical techniques can recover the original data without the need for retransmission. [8]
Note: Spread spectrum here means the bandwidth used to transfer data is much wider than the
bandwidth needs to transfer that data. Traditional communication systems use narrowband
signal to transfer data because the required bandwidth is minimum but the signal must have
high power to cope with noise.[9] Spread Spectrum does the opposite way when transmitting
the signal with much lower power level (can transmit below the noise level) but with much
wider bandwidth. Even if the noise affects some parts of the signal, the receiver can easily
recover the original data with some algorithms.

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Fig8. DSSS wave form [10]
The 2.4 GHz band has a bandwidth of 82 MHz, with a range from 2.402 GHz to 2.483 GHz. In
the USA, this band has 11 different overlapping DSSS channels while in some other countries it
can have up to 14 channels. Channels 1, 6 and 11 have least interference with each other so they
are preferred over other channels.
Fig.9. DSSS Channel Overlapping for Wi-Fi [11]

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10.DEVICES CONFIGURATIONS
Table 2 devices and interfaces IPs
Device/interface IP Address+
Subnet mask
Adhoc 1 15.15.15.15
255.0.0.0
Adhoc 2 15.15.15.16
255.0.0.0
Adhoc 3 15.15.15.17
255.0.0.0
Adhoc 4 15.15.15.18
255.0.0.0
Cont1:fa0/0 10.0.0.1
255.0.0.0
Cont:s0/3/0 12.0.0.1
255.0.0.0
Cont2:fa0/0 13.0.0.1
255.0.0.0
Cont2:s0/1/0 12.0.0.2
255.0.0.0
For Controller 1:
As shown in Appendix A
For Controller 2:
As shown in Appendix B
Coordinator (intermediate access point) Configuration
SSID (System Set Identifier): Coordinator
Key: adhocproject

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Fig.10. SSID and Pass Key
Connection Type: PPPOE (point to point over Ethernet)
Fig.11. PPPOE Connection Type
Wireless Security
SSID (System Set Identifier): Coordinator
Key: adhocproject
Fig.12. SSID and Pass Key after Connection

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Access List Control (ACL)
Fig.13. ACL Configuration
End Point Configuration
1st
End Point IP Address 192.168.1.2
Subnet mask 255.255.255.0
Fig.13. 1st
Adhoc Endpoint
2nd
Subnet mast 255.255.255.0

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Fig.14. 2nd
Adhoc End Point
3rd End Point IP Address 192.168.1.102
Fig.15. 3rd
Adhoc End Point
4th
Fig.16. 4th
Adhoc End Point

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CONCLUSIONS
Adhoc wireless network can be especially applied in enterprise business compounds or military
campuses. The desired design was limited into 3 stages (Core Layer, Intermediate Layer and the
Endpoint Layer), in every layer a commands were placed to let the device work probably and use
the right routing protocol (Static routing is used in this paper). So, the 3 layers can communicate
with each other. In the other hand, the adhoc mobile end points don’t need to route the sent
message to the core layer, its waste of time by 66 msec. In our case it just sends the message to
the coordinator and it has the lead to distribute the message to the destination end point.
References
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2011.
[5] Yi-Bing Lin & Imrich Chlamtac, Wireless and Mobile network architectures, 2012
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[7] Simon Haykin, Communication Systems, fifth edition, 2014
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Appendix A
Controller (Routers) Configuration
For Controller 1:
Router>en
Router#config t
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
Router(config)#hostname Controller 1
Controller1(config)#interface fastEthernet 0/0
Controller1(config-if)#ip address 10.0.0.1 255.0.0.0
Controller1(config-if)#no shutdown
Controller1(config-if)#
%LINK-5-CHANGED: Interface FastEthernet0/0, changed state to up
Controller1(config)#interface serial 0/3/0
Controller1(config-if)#clock rate 64000

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%LINK-5-CHANGED: Interface Serial0/3/0, changed state to up
Controller1(config)#line console 0
Controller1(config-line)#password adhoc1admin
Controller1(config-line)#login
Controller1(config)#line vty 0 4
Controller1(config)#ip route 13.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 12.0.0.2
Appendix B
For Controller 2:
Router>en
Router#config t
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
Router(config)#hostname Controller2
Controller2(config)#interface serial 0/1/0
%LINK-5-CHANGED: Interface Serial0/3/0, changed state to up
Controller2(config)#line console 0
Controller2(config)#line vty 0 4
Controller2(config)#ip route 10.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 12.0.0.1

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Authors
Mohamed Khedr obtained his B.Sc. degree from the Arab Academy for Science and
Technology, Alexandria, Egypt in 1997, the M.S. degree from same university in 2000, and
the Ph.D. degree from Ottawa University, Ottawa, Canada in 2004, all in Electrical
Engineering.From 1997 to 2000, He was a Graduate Teaching and research assistant at
AAST, Alexandria, Egypt.From 2000 to 2004 He was a Graduate Teaching and research assistant at
Ottawa University, Ottawa, Canada.From 2005 to 2009, he was an assistant Professor at AAST,
Department of Electronic and communications Engineering, Alexandria, Egypt.Since January 2009, He has
been an Associate professor at AAST, Department of Electronic and communications Engineering,
Alexandria, Egypt.Since Fall 2005, has been an Adjunct Professor at Virginia Tech, USA
Mohamed S. Zaghloul was born in 1954 in Alex, Egypt, graduate as electrical
engineer in 1977 has his master from Alexandria University in 1990 has his PhD in
Surface Acoustic wave in 2002 he works as doctor at Arab academy for science and
Technology in electronic and communication department
Mohamed I. El-Desouky was born in 1989 in Alex, Egypt, graduate as electrical,
Electronics and Communications engineer from The Arab Academy for Science,
Technology and Maritime Transport in 2010, has started preparation his master from the
same institute of graduation in 2011.

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