Direction-aware routing protocol for mobile ad hoc networks

Due to the development of wireless technology, people can now communicate while moving around. Wireless communication realizes people\´s dream to get rid of the constraint of wires. More and more applications based on wireless technology are designed and commercialized. A type of mobile wireless network called "mobile ad hoc network" has attracted more and more attention. A mobile ad hoc network is a totally wire free network without any connection through access points to the Internet. There is no centralized controlling center or infrastructure in a mobile ad hoc network. In such a network, mobile nodes are allowed to move around anywhere within a range and the topology which consists of mobile nodes changes frequently. The operation difficulty of a mobile ad hoc network is how a packet is to be routed. We propose a new and effective routing protocol named as "direction-aware routing protocol" for mobile ad hoc networks. Details of direction-aware routing algorithm are described and we also present our simulation methodology and simulation results to show the performance advantage of our routing performance.