Survey Paper: Routing protocols in ad hoc networks: A survey

  • Authors:

  • Azzedine Boukerche;Begumhan Turgut;Nevin Aydin;Mohammad Z. Ahmad;Ladislau Bölöni;Damla Turgut

  • Affiliations:

  • University of Ottawa, School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE), 800 King Edward Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5;Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Department of Computer Science, 110 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019, United States;Istanbul Arel University, Department of Industrial Engineering, Sefaköy, Küçükçekmece, Istanbul, Turkey;University of Central Florida, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, P.O. Box 162362, Orlando, FL 32816-2362, United States;University of Central Florida, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, P.O. Box 162362, Orlando, FL 32816-2362, United States;University of Central Florida, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, P.O. Box 162362, Orlando, FL 32816-2362, United States

  • Venue:
  • Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Ad hoc wireless networks perform the difficult task of multi-hop communication in an environment without a dedicated infrastructure, with mobile nodes and changing network topology. Different deployments exhibit various constraints, such as energy limitations, opportunities, such as the knowledge of the physical location of the nodes in certain scenarios, and requirements, such as real-time or multi-cast communication. In the last 15years, the wireless networking community designed hundreds of new routing protocols targeting the various scenarios of this design space. The objective of this paper is to create a taxonomy of the ad hoc routing protocols, and to survey and compare representative examples for each class of protocols. We strive to uncover the requirements considered by the different protocols, the resource limitations under which they operate, and the design decisions made by the authors.