Routing algorithm using channel based hop counting for wireless ad-hoc networks

Abstract

A wireless ad-hoc network is a decentralized wireless network and a routing protocol is important to support efficient data transmission in wireless ad-hoc network. Conventional routing schemes considered the number of hops to determine the routing path. However, channel condition is an important factor to determine successful data transmission. In this paper, we propose a routing algorithm that consider successful transmission rate of each link. The advantage of the proposed algorithm is that it can be easily applied to conventional routing algorithms by using channel-based hop count.