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An efficient routing protocol for wireless networks

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We present the Wireless Routing Protocol (WRP). In WRP, routing nodes communicate the distance and secondto-last hop for each destination. WRP reduces the number of cases in which a temporary routing loop can occur, which accounts for its fast convergence properties. A detailed proof of correctness is presented and its performance is compared by simulation with the performance of the distributed Bellman-Ford Algorithm (DBF), DUAL (a loop-free distance-vector algorithm) and an Ideal Link-state Algorithm (ILS), which represent the state of the art of internet routing. The simulation results indicate that WRP is the most efficient of the alternatives analyzed.

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    Shree Murthy & J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves

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This work was supported in part by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) under contract F19628-93-C-0175 and by the Office of Naval Research under Contract No. N-00014-92-J-1807.

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Murthy, S., Garcia-Luna-Aceves, J.J. An efficient routing protocol for wireless networks. Mobile Netw Appl 1, 183–197 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01193336

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