A novel routing approach for WCDL backbones

WCDL (Weapon Cooperation Data Link) adopts hierarchical methodology generally, as the nodes joining are numerous and moving rapidly. In the battlefield, the interference often occurs, and it will affect the delay seriously, which is an important parameter of the WCDL network. Moreover, the common approaches that care of the delay of next hop only can´t always achieve the minim end-to-end delay. In the paper, a delay oriented routing approach (I-DOBR, Interference-Delay Oriented Backbone Routing) with implementing model is proposed for WCDL backbone. With the feedback and cross-layer assisting, the SINR to the neighboring nodes and the end-to-end delay to the destination can be obtained to decide the next hop. The results provide important insights that the approach can get better performance than several typical routing protocols.