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An On-Demand Routing Protocol with Backtracking for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

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A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is characterized by multi-hop wireless links and frequent node mobility. Communication between non-neighboring nodes requires a multi-hop routing protocol to establish a route. But, the route often breaks due to mobility. The source must rediscover a new route for delivering the data packets. This wastes the resources that are limited in MANET. In this paper, a new on-demand routing protocol is proposed, named on-demand routing protocol with backtracking (ORB), for multi-hop mobile ad hoc networks. We use the multiple routes and cache data technique to reduce the rediscovery times and overhead. After executing the route discovery phase, we find out a set of nodes, named checkpoint, which has the multiple routes to the destination. When a checkpoint node receives a data packet, it caches this data packet in its buffer within a specific time period. When a node detects a broken route during the data packets delivery or receives an error packet, it will either recover the broken route or reply the error packet to the source. If a node can not forward the data packet to the next node, it replies an error packet to the source. This packet is backtracking to search a checkpoint to redeliver the data packet to the destination along other alternate routes. The main advantage of ORB is to reduce the flooding search times, maybe just delay and cost while a route has broken. The experimental results show that the proposed scheme can increase the performance of delivery but reduce the overhead efficiently comparing with that of AODV based routing protocols.

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Hua-Wen Tsai received the B.S. degree in Information Management from Chang Jung Christian University, Taiwan, in June 1998 and the M.B.A. degree in Business and Operations Management from Chang Jung Christian University, Taiwan, in June 2001. Since September 2001, he has been working towards the Ph.D. degree and currently is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. His research interests include wireless communication, ad hoc networks, and sensor networks.

Tzung-Shi Chen received the B.S. degree in Computer Science and Information Engineering from Tamkang University, Taiwan, in June 1989 and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Information Engineering from National Central University, Taiwan, in June 1994. He joined the faculty of the Department of Information Management, Chung Jung University, Tainan, Taiwan, as an Associate Professor in June 1996. Since November 2002, he has become a Full Professor at the Department of Information Management, Chung Jung University, Tainan, Taiwan. He was a visiting scholar at the Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, from June to September 2001. He was the chairman of the Department of Information Management at Chung Jung University from August 2000 to July 2003. Since August 2004, he has become a Full Professor at the Department of Information and Learning Technology, National University of Tainan, Tainan, Taiwan. Currently, he is the chairman of the Department of Information and Learning Technology, National University of Tainan. He co-received the best paper award of 2001 IEEE ICOIN-15. His current research interests include mobile computing and wireless networks, mobile learning, data mining, and pervasive computing. Dr. Chen is a member of the IEEE Computer Society.

Chih-Ping Chu received the B.S. degree in agricultural chemistry from National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan, the M.S. degree in computer science from the University of California, Riverside, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from Louisiana State University. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering of National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. His current research interests include parallel computing, parallel processing, component-based software development, and internet computing.

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Tsai, HW., Chen, TS. & Chu, CP. An On-Demand Routing Protocol with Backtracking for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. Wireless Pers Commun 38, 279–300 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-006-9015-z

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