A predictive routing protocol in ad-hoc wireless network

Much research has been done on designing Ad-Hoc routing protocols and some well known protocols have been implemented. However. one of the major drawbacks in the existing state-of-the-art protocols, such as AODV (Ad-Hoc On-demand Distance Vector) routing protocol, is that the time-varying nature of the wireless channels among the mobile hosts is ignored. This is a serious default in design because the varying channel quality could lead to very poor overall route quality and resulting in low data throughput. In this work, a newly-developed Ad-Hoc routing algorithm is proposed to dynamically change the routing paths according to the channel conditions. Extensive simulation results have indicated this protocol would be more efficient under the condition of busy network and time-varying topology.