Everything about Wireless Routing Protocol

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Wireless Routing ProtocolA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Cooperative Energy-Efficient Routing Protocol for Underwater Wireless Sensor NetworksInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Delay tolerant networksThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: A survey on routing protocols for wireless sensor networksCited 2,421 times
5. Go sideways: Destination-Sequenced Distance Vector routingA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Fisheye State RoutingA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• A survey on routing protocols for wireless sensor networks

  Kemal Akkaya, Mohamed Younis · 2005 · Ad Hoc Networks · 2,421 citations

• A review of current routing protocols for ad hoc mobile wireless networks

  E.M. Royer, Chai-Keong Toh · 1999 · IEEE Personal Communications · 2,190 citations

• An efficient routing protocol for wireless networks

  Shree Murthy, J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves · 1996 · Mobile Networks and Applications · 707 citations

• Routing Protocol for Heterogeneous Wireless Mesh Networks

  Ahmed Al-Saadi, Rossitza Setchi, Yulia Hicks · 2016 · IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology · 45 citations

• MRP: Wireless mesh networks routing protocol

  Jangeun Jun, Mihail L. Sichitiu · 2008 · Computer Communications · 38 citations

• DRP: Dynamic Routing Protocol in Wireless Sensor Networks

  Y. Harold Robinson, E. Golden Julie, Krishnan Saravanan · 2019 · Wireless Personal Communications · 24 citations

• A new wireless ad hoc multicast routing protocol

  Seungjoon Lee, Chongkwon Kim · 2002 · Computer Networks · 21 citations

• Zone-Based Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

  Muni Venkateswarlu Kumaramangalam, Kandasamy Adiyapatham, Chandrasekaran Kandasamy · 2014 · International Scholarly Research Notices · 17 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Cooperative Energy-Efficient Routing Protocol for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks

  Irfan Ahmad, Taj Rahman, Asim Zeb · 2022 · Sensors · 46 citations

• Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks Based on Archimedes Optimization Algorithm

  Yindi Yao, Dangyuan Xie, Ying Li · 2022 · IEEE Sensors Journal · 37 citations

• Energy-efficient cluster-based routing protocol for heterogeneous wireless sensor network

  Piyush Rawat, Gopal Singh Rawat, Harish Rawat · 2024 · Annals of Telecommunications · 34 citations

• A Novel Routing Protocol for Low-Energy Wireless Sensor Networks

  Sebastin Suresh, V. Prabhu, V. Parthasarathy · 2022 · Journal of Sensors · 33 citations

• Reliable and Delay Aware Routing Protocol for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks

  Sami Ullah, Amjad Saleem, Najmul Hassan · 2023 · IEEE Access · 26 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕Delay tolerant networksAthanasios Vasilakos · 2012
• Path problems in networksJohn S. Baras · 2010

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

🔗 Related topics

• Destination-Sequenced Distance Vector routing Destination-Sequenced Distance-Vector Routing (DSDV) is a table-driven routing scheme for ad hoc mobile networks based on the Bellman–Ford algorithm. It…
• Fisheye State Routing Fisheye State Routing (FSR) is a proposal for an implicit hierarchical routing protocol targeted to ad hoc networks. The basic principles of FSR are shared…
• Link-state routing protocol Link-state routing protocols are one of the two main classes of routing protocols used in packet switching networks for computer communications, the others…
• Optimized Link State Routing Protocol The Optimized Link State Routing Protocol (OLSR) is an IP routing protocol optimized for mobile ad hoc networks, which can also be used on other wireless…
• Dynamic Source Routing Dynamic source routing (DSR) is a routing protocol for wireless mesh networks. It is similar to AODV in that it forms a route on-demand when a transmitting…
• Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Routing Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV) Routing is a routing protocol for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) and other wireless ad hoc networks. It was jointly…
• Routing Routing is the process of selecting a path for traffic in a network or between or across multiple networks. Broadly, routing is performed in many types…
• ExOR Extremely Opportunistic Routing (ExOR) is a combination of routing protocol and media access control for a wireless ad hoc network, invented by Sanjit…