Routing Protocols
There are more than 70 competing schemes for routing packets across mesh networks. Some of these include:
- AODV (Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector)
- B.A.T.M.A.N. (Better Approach To Mobile Adhoc Networking)
- Babel (protocol) (a distance-vector routing protocol for IPv6 and IPv4 with fast convergence properties)
- DNVR (Dynamic NIx-Vector Routing)
- DSDV (Destination-Sequenced Distance-Vector Routing)
- DSR (Dynamic Source Routing)
- HSLS (Hazy-Sighted Link State)
- HWMP (Hybrid Wireless Mesh Protocol)
- IWMP (Infrastructure Wireless Mesh Protocol) for Infrastructure Mesh Networks by GRECO UFPB-Brazil
- MRP (Wireless mesh networks routing protocol) by Jangeun Jun and Mihail L. Sichitiu
- OLSR (Optimized Link State Routing protocol)
- OORP (OrderOne Routing Protocol) (OrderOne Networks Routing Protocol)
- OSPF (Open Shortest Path First Routing)
- PWRP (Predictive Wireless Routing Protocol)
- TORA (Temporally-Ordered Routing Algorithm)
- ZRP (Zone Routing Protocol)
The IEEE is developing a set of standards under the title 802.11s to define an architecture and protocol for ESS Mesh Networking.
A more thorough list can be found at Ad hoc routing protocol list.
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