An efficient and decentralized location lookup service in wireless ad hoc networks

Location lookup services are necessary for location-based routing in wireless ad hoc network. In this paper, we present a location lookup service whose design goals include having high success rates on location discovery, keeping low demands on network resources, and robustness to dynamic change; in network topology. Evaluated by simulating mobile wireless networks, the performance of this location lookup service exhibits high success rates, low demands on network bandwidth consumption and on storage space, and robustness to dynamic changes in network topology.