Packet traceback in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) is a technique for identifying the source and intermediaries of a packet forwarding path. While many IP traceback techniques have been introduced for packet attribution in the Internet, they are not directly applicable in MANETs due to unique challenges of MANET environments. In this work, we make the first effort to quantitatively analyze the...

Existing reliable-oriented routing protocols computes link reliability based on the packet reception ratio and neglects impact of various parameters such as noise, shadowing, battery-lifespan, uncertainty and geographic locations. In this paper, we propose a Link Reliable Reactive Routing (LR3) protocol for WSNs to accomplish reliable and resilience to out-of-order transmission and path diversi...

In the standard Mobile IPv6, route optimization or bidirectional tunnelling through the home agent show inefficiency in per-packet forwarding, especially when both communicating endpoints are mobile. To be scalable and compatible, mobile devices’ packets should be forwarded in a way with minimal changes to the network infrastructure. However, the current solutions do not provide any means for t...

A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) can be described as a collection of untethered sensor nodes. An important application of WSNs is in the field of real-time communication. Real-time communication is a critical service which requires a qualitative routing protocol for energy-efficient network communication. The judicious use of energy of the network nodes is essential and important for sustainabil...

This document specifies the Depth-First Forwarding (DFF) protocol for IPv6 networks, a data-forwarding mechanism that can increase reliability of data delivery in networks with dynamic topology and/or lossy links. The protocol operates entirely on the forwarding plane but may interact with the routing plane. DFF forwards data packets using a mechanism similar to a "depth-first search" for the d...

It is crucial for ATM to efficiently support existing data applications. One of the promising methods of supporting data over ATM uses connectionless servers providing a packet switching service in the ATM network. There are two primary methods for forwarding cell based datagrams in a connectionless server: reassembly mode, where the datagrams are reconstructed before forwarding, and streaming ...

Vehicular ad hoc networks which support active safety applications have to address data packet recipients by taking the position of the vehicles into account. This leads to a two step forwarding procedure. Firstly, in line forwarding mode data packets are sent to a target area and in a second step the data packets are distributed inside the target area (area forwarding mode). This contribution ...

Network wide broadcasting is a fundamental operation in ad hoc networks. In broadcasting, a source node sends a message to all the other nodes in the network. Unlike in a wired network, a packet transmitted by a node in ad hoc wireless network can reach all neighbors. Therefore, the total number of transmissions (Forwarding nodes) used as the cost criterion for broadcasting. The broadcast opera...

In geographical forwarding of packets in a large wireless sensor network (WSN) with sleep-wake cycling nodes, we are interested in the local decision problem faced by a node that has “custody” of a packet and has to choose one among a set of next-hop relay nodes to forward the packet towards the sink. Each relay is associated with a “reward” that summarizes the benefit of forwarding the packet ...

We motivate and formally define dynamic multipath routing and present the problem of packet forwarding in the multipath routing context. We demonstrate that for multipath sets that are suffis matched, forwarding can be efficiently implemented with (1) a per packet overhead of a small, fixed-length path identifier, and (2) router space overhead linear in K , the number of alternate paths between...