Routing protocols in ad hoc networks: A survey

    Authors

    A. Boukerche; B. Turgut; N. Aydin; M. Z. Ahmad; L. Boloni;D. Turgut

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Comput. Netw.

    Keywords

    Ad hoc networks; Sensor networks; Routing protocols; WIRELESS NETWORKS; ON-DEMAND; MOBILE NETWORKS; DISCOVERY; MAINTENANCE; ALGORITHMS; FRAMEWORK; MECHANISM; QUALITY; ROUTES; Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture; Computer Science, Information; Systems; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic; Telecommunications

    Abstract

    Ad hoc wireless networks perform the difficult task of multi-hop communication in an environment without a dedicated infrastructure, with mobile nodes and changing network topology. Different deployments exhibit various constraints, such as energy limitations, opportunities, such as the knowledge of the physical location of the nodes in certain scenarios, and requirements, such as real-time or multi-cast communication. In the last 15 years, the wireless networking community designed hundreds of new routing protocols targeting the various scenarios of this design space. The objective of this paper is to create a taxonomy of the ad hoc routing protocols, and to survey and compare representative examples for each class of protocols. We strive to uncover the requirements considered by the different protocols, the resource limitations under which they operate, and the design decisions made by the authors. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

    Journal Title

    Computer Networks

    Volume

    55

    Issue/Number

    13

    Publication Date

    1-1-2011

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    3032

    Last Page

    3080

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000294083900016

    ISSN

    1389-1286

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