Geographical Routing in Intermittently Connected Ad Hoc Networks

  • Authors:
  • Erik Kuiper;Simin Nadjm-Tehrani

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • AINAW '08 Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications - Workshops
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In intermittently connected ad hoc networks standard routing protocols like AODV, DSR and GPSR fail since they generally cannot find a contemporaneous path from source to destination. In this paper we present LAROD, a geographical routing protocol for intermittently connected networks. Combining beacon less geographical routing with store-carry-forward LAROD greedily searches for the shortest way to the destination and when no progress is possible packets are temporarily stored until node mobility has created a new path. In the paper we have shown by a comparative study that LAROD has almost as good delivery rate as an epidemic routing scheme, but at a substantially lower overhead.