| A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a collection of wireless mobile hosts forming a temporary network without the aid of any centralized administration or standard support services regularly available in wired networks where hosts are normally connected. In high-mobility wireless ad hoc networks, the fast change of topology increases the complexity of routing. Many location-aided or location-based routing protocols [MJH01] have been recently proposed, such as LAR [KV00] and GRID [LTS01]. In this thesis, we propose a new routing protocol for high-mobility wireless ad hoc networks, namely, Zone-Based Routing (ZBR) protocol, where the network area is divided into fixed non-overlapping square zones, each of which has a unique zoneID to identify the zone. Every zone has a mobile terminal (MT) that acts as a zone-head whose responsibility is to be a router in the network and to maintain information of member MTs within its zone. A path is a collection of ID numbers (rather than IP numbers), which specifies the zones, rather than specific MTs, the path traverses. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)... |
