Flow-oriented Routing
This type of protocols finds a route on demand by following present flows. One option is to unicast consecutively when forwarding data while promoting a new link. The main disadvantages of such algorithms are:
- Takes long time when exploring new routes without a prior knowledge.
- May refer to entitative existing traffic to compensate for missing knowledge on routes.
Examples of flow oriented algorithms are:
- Bandwidth Reservation over Adhoc Wireless Networks, Rafael Paoliello Guimarães and Llorenç Cerdà, http://research.ac.upc.es/XARXES/CompNet/papers/2008-brawn.pdf
- FR and PR, E. Gafni, D. Bertsekas: Distributed Algorithms for Generating Loop-free Routes in Networks with Frequently Changing Topology, IEEE Transactions on Communication, Vol. 29, No. 1, Jan, 1981, pp.11–15. - The first Link Reversal Routing (LRR) algorithms.
- IERP (Interzone Routing Protocol/reactive part of the ZRP) – ZYGMUNT J. HAAS, MARC R. PEARLMAN, PRINCE SAMAR The Interzone Routing Protocol (IERP) for Ad Hoc Networks, Internet Draft, http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-manet-zone-ierp, work in progress, July 2002.
- LUNAR (Lightweight Underlay Network Ad hoc Routing) – CHRISTIAN TSCHUDIN AND RICHARD GOLD Lightweight Underlay Network Ad hoc Routing (LUNAR), http://cn.cs.unibas.ch/projects/lunar/
- RDMAR (Relative-Distance Micro-discovery Ad hoc Routing protocol) – G. AGGELOU, R. TAFAZOLLI Relative Distance Micro-discovery Ad Hoc Routing (RDMAR) protocol Internet Draft, http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-manet-rdmar, work in progress, September 1999.
- SSR (Signal Stability Routing protocol) – R. DUBE, C. D. RAIS, K. WANG, AND S. K. TRIPATHI Signal Stability based adaptive routing (SSR alt SSA) for ad hoc mobile networks, IEEE Personal Communication, Feb. 1997.
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