A hierarchical routing scheme with location information on autonomous clustering for mobile ad hoc networks

Abstract

Recently in ad hoc networks, routing schemes using location information which is provided by GPS (Global Position System) have been proposed. This paper proposes a new hierarchical routing protocol based on the autonomous clustering scheme using the location information of nodes and shows the effectiveness of the proposed hierarchical routing in comparison with GPSR, Hi-AODV and AODV through simulation experiments with respect to the amount of control packets and the data delivery ratio.