∗ This research is supported in part by The New Jersey Center for Multimedia Research and in part by New Jersey Institute of Technology under Grant No 421050. Abstract In this paper we propose PSR (Position-guided Sliding-window Routing), a position-based/link-state hybrid, proactive routing protocol that provides for a flat, mobile ad-hoc routing architecture. Our protocol is based on the supe...

Location based routing protocols are the kinds of routing protocols, which use of nodes’ location information, instead of links’ information for routing. They are also known as position based routing. In position based routing protocols, it is supposed that the packet source node has position information of itself and its neighbors and packet destination node. In recent years, many location bas...

Mobile Ad hoc Networks are used particularly in critical applications that lack fixed Network infrastructure. The geographical information used by routing protocols makes forwarding decision for reduced routing. But the topology based MANET protocols are vulnerable to number of attacks. As position based routing protocols concentrate on improving the performance, they fail to concentrate on the...

Position based routing algorithms use the knowledge of the position of nodes for routing of packets in mobile ad-hoc networks. Previously proposed position based routing algorithms may fail to find a route from a source to a destination in some types of ad-hoc networks and if they find a route, it may be much longer than the shortest path. On the other hand, routing algorithms which are based o...