Paper Info
Title
TOAR: transmission-aware opportunistic ad hoc routing protocol.
Abstract
Opportunistic routing (OR) protocols for ad hoc networks basically consist of selecting a few forwarders between the source and destination and prioritizing their transmission. The performance of OR protocols depends on how these two steps are performed. The aim was to reduce the number of transmissions to deliver packets to the destination. In this paper, we first present a mathematical model to compute the total number of packets including duplicate packets generated by OR protocols. We use the model to analyse well-known OR protocols and understand the reason behind their increase in number of transmissions. Next, we propose an OR scheme transmission-aware opportunistic ad hoc routing (TOAR) protocol, which attempts to minimize retransmissions. Our proposed OR protocol uses tree structures to select forwarders and prioritize them. The use of tree structures helps in identifying primary forwarders which carry packets farthest to the destination during each transmission round. TOAR also helps in choosing secondary forwarders which will transmit packets missed out by the forwarder. The optimized selection of forwarders results in significant reduction in retransmissions, a smaller forwarder list set, and improvement in goodput.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1186/1687-1499-2013-237
EURASIP J. Wireless Comm. and Networking
Keywords
Field
DocType
Source Node, Packet Delivery Ratio, Dynamic Source Rout, Candidate Node, Effective Weight
Ad hoc routing,Forwarder,Transmission (mechanics),Computer science,Network packet,Computer network,Optimized Link State Routing Protocol,Tree structure,Goodput,Wireless ad hoc network,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2013
1
1687-1499
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
11
0.39
16
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Arka Prokash Mazumdar1131.76
Ashok Singh Sairam24310.83