Probabilistic Routing in Opportunistic Ad Hoc Networks
Vangelis Angelakis, Niki Gazoni, Yu Di · InTech eBooks · 2012
Routing packets in multi-hop ad hoc wireless networks poses a great challenge mainly due to the unreliability of the wireless links and the inherent interference of the wireless medium [13]. Due to these characteristics, traditional wired routing schemes that select the best path towards a destination and forward the packet to a specific next hop, have proven ill-suited for networks utilizing the wireless medium and relying on lossy broadcast links. Lately, a new routing paradigm, namely opportunistic routing, has been proposed to cope with unreli‐ able transmissions by taking advantage of the broadcast nature and spatial diversity of the wireless medium [2, 6].