A novel approach to source routing for multi-hop ad hoc networks.

The popularity of wireless ad hoc networks has significantly increased over the past years. As a result, a great scientific effort has been made to develop and implement efficient routing protocols, able to cope with the stochastically varying topology of such networks. We present an efficient routing protocol that combines source routing, caching of routes, and the use of sequence numbers to alleviate the routing load and at the same time increase the successful delivery of data packets. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]