This book provides an introduction to opportunistic routing an
emerging technology designed to improve the packet forwarding
reliability, network capacity and energy efficiency of multihop wireless
networks
This book presents a comprehensive background to the technological
challenges lying behind opportunistic routing. The authors cover many
fundamental research issues for this new concept, including the basic
principles, performance limit and performance improvement of
opportunistic routing compared to traditional routing, energy efficiency
and distributed opportunistic routing protocol design, geographic
opportunistic routing, opportunistic broadcasting, and security issues
associated with opportunistic routing, etc. Furthermore, the authors
discuss technologies such as multi-rate, multi-channel, multi-radio
wireless communications, energy detection, channel measurement, etc. The
book brings together all the new results on this topic in a systematic,
coherent and unified presentation and provides a much needed
comprehensive introduction to this topic.
Key Features:
- Addresses opportunistic routing, an emerging technology designed to
improve the packet forwarding reliability, network capacity and energy
efficiency of multihop wireless networks
- Discusses the technological challenges lying behind this new
technology, and covers a wide range of practical implementation issues
- Explores many fundamental research issues for this new concept,
including the basic principles of opportunistic routing, performance
limits and performance improvement, and compares them to traditional
routing (e.g. energy efficiency and distributed opportunistic routing
protocol design, broadcasting, and security issues)
- Covers technologies such as multi-rate, multi-channel, multi-radio
wireless communications, energy detection, channel measurement, etc.
This book provides an invaluable reference for researchers working in
the field of wireless networks and wireless communications, and Wireless
professionals. Graduate students will also find this book of interest.
