A Zone Based Routing Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks and Its Performance Improvement by Reduction of Control Packets

In recent years, there are many research works on ad hoc networks. In the future, we will see many ad hoc network applications, which are very important for realizing ubiquitous environments. The topology of ad hoc networks may change. For this reason, the routing protocols play an important role for construction of ad hoc networks. In this paper, we propose a new zone based routing protocol, which reduces the number of control packets. In the conventional routing protocols, the control packets are transmitted periodically. However, in the proposed protocol, the control packets are only transmitted when nodes are moving. The performance evaluation via simulations shows that the proposed protocol has a good performance and power consumption characteristics than conventional protocols.