Many routing algorithms, proposed for ad-hoc wireless networks, are based on source routing scheme. When a route is broken in source routing, route recovery and maintenance procedures are executed. However, these procedures consume many resources. To minimize route breaking, it’s important to find a route that endures longer time. Shortest path route has short lifetime especially in highly dens...

Mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a dynamic and self organized network, which is a collection of wireless mobile nodes (hosts) communicating with each other without any predefined infrastructure or centralized administration. Because of mobility of nodes there is no fixed topology and it may result to frequent link breakage. The primary goal of any ad-hoc network routing protocol is to meet the ...

been proposed to meet the QoS requirement of today's multimedia applications. These algorithms can be divided into two categories: source routing and distributed routing. In this paper, we propose a novel QoS routing algorithm, which is an integration of source routing and distributed routing. We introduce the concept of " Domain " which is a set of neighboring nodes and links. Each node has it...

In this paper we give an overview of open-source and commercial multicast routing solutions. XORP (eXtensible Open Router Platform) is the only system which includes support for the multicast management and multicast routing protocol. We provided support for the multicast routing and multicast routing protocol (PIM sparse mode) in the core of the Linux operating system and developed an advanced...

Ad hoc routing technology has been developed primarily for networks of mobile nodes. In many cases the operational life of a node will be limited by its power source, so power consumption can be a critical issue. All the layers of communication are coupled in power consumption. Ad hoc routing protocols may consume different amounts of power and their routing decisions may be conditioned. Power ...

Our recently proposed scalable source routing (SSR) protocol combines source routing in the physical network with Chord-like routing in the virtual ring that is formed by the address space. Thereby, SSR provides self-organized routing in large unstructured networks of resource-limited devices. Its ability to quickly adapt to changes in the network topology makes it suitable not only for sensor-...

Mobile wireless ad hoc networks are infrastructureless and often used to operate under unattended mode. So, it is significant in bringing out a comparison of the various routing protocols for better understanding and implementation of them. In this paper, we studied and compared the performance of various routing protocols like Ad hoc On-Demand Vector routing (AODV), Fisheye, Dynamic MANET On-d...