Self-selective routing for wireless ad hoc networks

This paper presents self-selective routing, a self-maintained and fault-tolerant routing protocol for wireless ad hoc networks. The protocol combines broadcast radio transmissions with the novel autonomous programming technique, called self-selection, to support routing without the overhead of traditional ad hoc route maintenance. Moreover, the protocol routes packets through a dynamically established and nearly optimal path between two wireless nodes. In the paper, we present simulation results that demonstrate that self-selective routing is scalable and maintains highly sustained performance, even for heavy network traffic and under frequent network node and link faults.