Opportunistic routing in wireless mesh networks

Opportunistic Routing (OR) has been proposed as a way to increase the performance of wireless networks by exploiting its broadcast nature. In OR, instead of pre-selecting a single specific node to be the next-hop as a forwarder for a packet, multiple nodes can potentially be selected as the next-hop...

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Autores: Darehshoorzadeh, Amir, Cerdà Alabern, Llorenç|||0000-0002-2799-6173, Pla Boscà, Vicent
Tipo de recurso: capítulo de libro
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/20315
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/20315
https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3514-3_11
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Wireless communications systems
Routing (Computer network management)
Opportunistic routing
Candidate selection
Wireless mesh networks
Comunicació sense fil, Sistemes de
Encaminadors (Xarxes d'ordinadors)
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria de la telecomunicació::Telemàtica i xarxes d'ordinadors
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Sumario:Opportunistic Routing (OR) has been proposed as a way to increase the performance of wireless networks by exploiting its broadcast nature. In OR, instead of pre-selecting a single specific node to be the next-hop as a forwarder for a packet, multiple nodes can potentially be selected as the next-hop forwarder. Thus the source can use multiple potential paths to deliver the packets to the destination. More specially, when the current node transmits a packet, all the candidates that receive the packet successfully will coordinate with each other to determine which one would actually forward the packet according to some criteria, while the other nodes will simply discard the packet. In this chapter, we survey the state of the art in OR, then focus on the candidates selection algorithms and carry out a comparative performance evaluation of the most relevant proposals appeared in the literature.