A Sofrware Framework for Robust Packet Delivery in Wireless Multi-hop Networks

This paper presents a framework for reliable packet delivery in wireless multi-hop networks exploiting an ad hoc routing protocol working on Layer 2.5. This framework incorporates a 2.5-layer routing technique with a reputation management scheme called the WARM (Wireless multi-hop Ad hoc routing incorporating Reputation Management) protocol, and high throughput network performance based on a cross-layer approach between Layer 2.5 and the TCP layer by means of TCP congestion control along with the proposed reputation management scheme. Experiments showed that the proposed framework incorporating the WARM protocol yielded efficient performance in terms of robust packet delivery and high network throughput performance.