Greedy Perimeter Stateless Routing (GPSR) is a Position-Based Routing Protocol for Wireless Networks that uses the Position of routers. GPSR makes greedy forwarding decision by using closest neighbor’s information of destination. In GPSR each node has the knowledge of its current physical position and also the neighbor node, this knowledge about node provides better routing. When a packet reach...

Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANETs) is a novel technology that has recently emerged and due to its swift changing topology and high mobility nature, it has become problematic to design an efficient routing protocol in VANETs’ amongst both moving and stationary units. Also, the existing routing algorithms are not very effective to satisfy all requirements of VANETs. This paper explores the need o...

Routing in ad-hoc sensor networks is a complicated task because of many reasons. The nodes are low powered and they cannot maintain routing tables large enough for well-known routing protocols. Because of that, greedy forwarding at intermediate nodes is desirable in ad-hoc networks. Also, for traffic engineering, multipath capabilities are important. So, it is desirable to define routes at the ...

The stateless, low overhead and distributed nature of the Geographic routing protocols attract a lot of research attentions recently. Since the geographic routing would face void problems, leading to complementary routing such as perimeter routing which degrades the performance of geographic routing, most research works are focus on optimizing this complementary part of geographic routing to im...

— In Geographic Routing protocols (e.g. GPSR), a node makes packet forwarding decisions based on the coordinates of its neighbors and the packet’s destination. Geo-routing uses greedy forwarding as a default; if this fails (e.g. the packet is trapped in a dead end caused by holes and/or obstacles), a recovery scheme based on perimeter routing is invoked. This however often leads to degraded per...

Routing packets along a specified curve is a new approach to forwarding packets in large-scale dense sensor networks. Forwarding packets along trajectories can be very effective in implementing many networking functions when standard bootstrapping or configuration services are not available, as will be the case in sensor networks where nodes are thrown or dropped to form a one-time use network....

The high-level contribution of this paper is an energy-aware version of the well-known position-based Greedy Perimeter Stateless Routing (GPSR) protocol for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). In the proposed energy-aware GPSR protocol, referred to as E-GPSR, we optimize the greedy forwarding mode as follows: a forwarding node first determines a candidate set of neighbor nodes – the nodes that lie...

VANET have recently been the topic of extensive research due to its wide range of applications and unique characteristics. Routing is very important issue in VANET. Greedy forwarding is one of the most suitable solutions for routing in VANET. Due to its high mobility and frequent changing velocities of vehicles, greedy forwarding protocols are known to be more suitable and useful to VANET. In t...

Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs) are generally used for surveillance applications, intrusion detection, environmental and building monitoring, etc. Routing has become an important challenge to WMSNs from the standpoint of supporting multimedia applications due to the constraints on energy and computational capabilities of sensor nodes, and acquiring of the global network knowledge fo...