District dependent retransmission routing protocol for ad hoc mobile wireless networks
Ru‐Sheng Liu, Ying-Kwei Ho · 2004
Our main purposes are to relieve broadcast problem, to immunize to some prerequisites, and to reduce the number of transmitted control packets. Broadcasting control packets network-wide is the most direct and common method for finding the required destination node in ad hoc mobile wireless networks; however, this causes a lot of waste of wireless bandwidth. To remedy the problem, routing protocols demanding some prerequisites are proposed; nonetheless, hardly can they be used if these prerequisites are missed or become stale. To efficiently reduce the number of transmitted control packets, our routing protocol partitions the network into interlaced gray districts and white districts by the aid of GPS and inhibits an intermediate node residing in a white district from retransmitting control packets. Therefore, a lot of control packets are saved. Moreover, our routing protocol is easy to be implemented and saves precious wireless bandwidth.