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Chapter 1 presented multi-hop communication as one of the opportunities to reduce the energy consumption of the devices, thus extending their lifetime. The development of efficient multi-hop routing protocols is therefore a fundamental aspect for the successful deployment of wireless ad hoc networks. However, routing in wireless ad hoc networks is fundamentally different from the apparently similar problem in wired networks, because bandwidth is scarce and topology changes frequently. This raises a double challenge for multi-hop routing in wireless ad hoc networks: nodes are less powerful and routing is more difficult. Given this fact, it is not surprising to observe that multi-hop routing has been one of the most active fields of research in MANETs.
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Araujo, F., Miranda, H. (2009). Ad Hoc Routing. In: Garbinato, B., Miranda, H., Rodrigues, L. (eds) Middleware for Network Eccentric and Mobile Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89707-1_4
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