A multipath routeless routing protocol with an efficient location update mechanism. (8th June 2011)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Al-Otaibi, Mohammad; Soliman, Hamdy; Zheng, Jun
• Is Part Of: International journal of internet protocol technology. Volume 6:Number 1/2(2011)
• Page Start: 75
• Page End: 82
• Publication Date: 2011-06-08
• Subjects: network performance -- standard beaconless routing -- BLR -- multipath routing -- routeless routing -- GPSR -- location update; File Transfer Protocol (Computer network protocol) -- Periodicals; Multicasting (Computer networks) -- Periodicals; 004.678
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1743-8209

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce and evaluate an efficient multipath 'routeless' routing (MRR) protocol. MRR is a form of beaconless geographic routing protocol, and uses a simple location update mechanism to achieve high throughput with few retransmissions. Unlike the standard beaconless routing (BLR) protocol, our main point of comparison, our protocol constructs a single forwarding area to identify nodes between the source and destination. This forwarding area is a rectangular area shape with enough width to allow multiple routes. Promising simulation results show that our protocol outperforms the standard BLR approach with respect to energy consumption, packet delivery ratio, and the average number of hops.