Paul Okokhere
CS 898T
Proposal for term paper
Summer 2005


Topic:

 Ad Hoc Wireless Network and its Routing Protocols

Major goals:

     The goal of this paper is to give an overview of the routing protocols 
used in ad-hoc wireless networks. The paper will examine the correct and 
timely message deliverance between nodes utilizing these protocols including 
their functionality and characteristics. 

Scope: 

Since protocols that are being used in wireless networking have evolved a great
deal, the emphasis of this paper will be on modern protocols. Presently, there 
are two types of mobile wireless networks namely, infrastructured networks and 
infrastructureless or Ad-Hoc networks. The paper will be describing the 
protocols for the ad-hoc wireless networks; these are networks without access 
points.
      The design of these routing protocols will be examined, the operations 
will be described and a comparison of their characteristics will also be made.	
	 

References:

[1] Charles E. Perkins and Elizabeth M. Royer, "Ad-hoc On-Demand Distance 
    Vector Routing. ", Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Workshop on Mobile 
    Computing Systems and Applications, New Orleans, LA, February 1999, 
    pp. 90-100.

[2] C-K Toh, .A novel distributed routing protocol to support ad-hoc mobile 
    computing., Proceedings of 15th IEEE Annual International Phoenix 
    Conference on Computers and Communications, (1996), 480-486

[3] Sung-Ju Lee, Mario Gerla, and Ching-Chuang Chiang, " On-Demand Multicast 
    Routing Protocol", To appear in Proceedings of IEEE WCNC'99, New Orleans, 
    LA, Sep. 1999.

[4] Josh Broch, David A. Maltz, David B. Johnson, Yih-Chun Hu, 
    Jorjeta Jetcheva, "A Performance Comparison of Multi-Hop Wireless Ad Hoc Net    work Routing Protocols.", In Proceedings of Mobicom '98 
    http://www.isc.uci.edu/~atmadhoc/paper-collection