FORTEL: Forecasting routing technique using location information for Mobile Ad hoc networks

This paper proposes a new position-based Routing protocol for Mobile Ad hoc networks, referred to as FORTEL. According to FORTEL, each node in the network maintains a location table that stores the location of all the other nodes. To discover a route to the destination, the source node relies on the location table to construct the destination´s connectivity tree, which includes all the destination´s possible neighbors (1^st, 2^nd ... n^th hop neighbors), according to which the end-to-end path consisting of the minimum number of hops is extracted. The main challenge of any designed routing algorithm is the robustness against the nodes´ mobility, while maintaining higher level of packet delivery rate in high mobility scenarios. The simulation results show that the proposed work achieves 20% higher delivery rate as opposed to existing MANET protocols such as DSR and OLSR.