Kai Zeng & Wenjing Lou 
Multihop Wireless Networks [EPUB ebook] 
Opportunistic Routing

About the Series Editors.
Preface.
List of Abbreviations.
1 Introduction.
1.1 Multihop wireless networks.
1.2 Routing challenges in MWNs.
1.3 Routing techniques in MWNs.
1.4 Related work.
1.5 Book contribution.
1.6 System model and assumptions.
References.
2 Taxonomy of opportunistic routing: principles and
behaviors.
2.1 EPA generalization.
2.2 Principles of local behavior of GOR.
2.3 Least cost opportunistic routing.
2.4 Conclusions.
References.
3 Energy efficiency of geographic opportunistic
routing.
3.1 EGOR problem formulation.
3.2 Efficient localized node-selection algorithms.
3.3 Energy-efficient geographic opportunistic routing.
3.4 Performance evaluation.
3.5 Conclusion.
References.
4 Capacity of multirate opportunistic routing.
4.1 Computing throughput bound of OR.
4.2 Impact of transmission rate and forwarding strategy on
throughput.
4.3 Rate and candidate selection schemes.
4.4 Performance evaluation.
4.5 Conclusion.
References.
5 Multiradio multichannel opportunistic routing.
5.1 Introduction.
5.2 System model and opportunistic routing primer.
5.3 Problem formulation.
5.4 Forwarding priority scheduling.
5.5 Performance evaluation 1.
5.6 Conclusions and future work.
References.
6 Medium access control for opportunistic routing – candidate
coordination.
6.1 Existing candidate coordination schemes.
6.2 Design and analysis of FSA.
6.3 Simulation results and evaluation.
6.4 Conclusions.
References.
7 Integration of opportunistic routing and network
coding.
7.1 A brief review of MORE.
7.2 Mobile content distribution in VANETs.
7.3 Related works on mobile content distribution in VANETs.
7.4 Background on symbol-level network coding.
7.5 Code On: a cooperative popular content broadcast scheme for
VANETs based on SLNC.
7.6 Code Play: a live multimedia streaming scheme for VANETs
based on SLNC.
7.7 Conclusion.
References.
8 Multirate geographic opportunistic routing protocol
design.
8.1 System model.
8.2 Impact of transmission rate and forwarding strategy on OR
performance.
8.3 Opportunistic effective one-hop throughput (OEOT).
8.4 Heuristic candidate selection algorithm.
8.5 Multirate link-quality measurement.
8.6 Performance evaluation.
8.7 Conclusion.
References.
9 Opportunistic routing security.
9.1 Attack on link quality measurement.
9.2 Attacks on opportunistic coordination protocols.
9.3 Resilience to packet-dropping attack.
9.4 Conclusion.
References.
10 Opportunistic broadcasts in vehicular networks.
10.1 Related works on broadcasts in general MWNs.
10.2 Related works on broadcasts in VANETs.
10.3 Problem statement.
10.4 Overview of Opp Cast.
10.5 Opp Cast: main design.
10.6 Parameter optimization.
10.7 Performance evaluation.
10.8 Conclusion.
References
11 Conclusions and future research.
11.1 Summary.
11.2 Future research directions.
References.
Index.

Dr. Wenjing Lou, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
Wenjing Lou holds a BE and M.Eng in Computer Science and Engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, P.R.China, a M.A.Sc in Computer Communications from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and a Ph D in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Florida. Her research interests include Wireless Sensor Networks, Ad hoc Networks, and Wireless Mesh Networks, with emphases on Network Security and Routing. Lou is guest editor for the International Journal of Wireless Information Networks, Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and a Senior Member of IEEE.
Kai Zeng, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
Kai Zeng graduated with a Ph D degree from Worcester polytechnic Institute in 2008 and is currently a post-doc research fellow at University of California, Davis.
Ming Li, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
Ming Li is currently a Ph D student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.