An efficient routing protocol for heterogeneous wireless ad hoc networks
Xu Zhang, Zhihong Qian, Tianping Li, Liang Qian, Caixin Fu, Yanyan Li · 2011
There are lots of devices with different power in the network. This phenomenon may be nothing in the wired network, but in the wireless network that would be a serious problem. Most of the traditional routing protocols assume that the link is symmetric. We found that heterogeneity network performance will be severely affected. We give new routing protocol that employs adaptive technique to the MANET routing protocols. In this routing protocol, nodes can sense the power to determine whether to forward packets or not. By avoiding dependence on periodic beaconing, this method requires low overhead and delay. Performance results show that technique improve performance in heterogeneous environments.