Sheet 2

Wireless Ad Hoc Networks  - Routing Protocols

1)
a) Discuss the issues in designing routing protocols in wireless ad hoc networks?
b) How is the Error-Prone shared broadcast radio channel can affect the design of routing protocol?
c) Identify some of the key issues in the ideal ad hoc routing protocols?
d) What are the main categories in the classification of the ad hoc routing protocols? 

2)
a) Discuss the differences in the maintenance of topology information in proactive and reactive protocols?
b) How is the route management done in the AODV protocol?
c) Explain the route discovery mechanism in the DSR protocol? 

3) 
a) Explain the Expected and the Request Zone in the Location-aided routing protocol ? 
b) Under which category is teh zone routing protocol and what are ZRP advantages and disadvantages? 


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Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Lecture (WS 09/10)

Prof. Dr. Dieter Hogrefe, Dr. Omar Alfandi

Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Institut für Informatik
Goldschmidtstrasse 7
37077 Göttingen