CBRP, or Cluster Based Routing Protocol, is a
routing protocol
A routing protocol specifies how routers communicate with each other to distribute information that enables them to select routes between nodes on a computer network. Routers perform the traffic directing functions on the Internet; data packet ...
for
wireless mesh networks
A wireless mesh network (WMN) is a communications network made up of radio nodes organized in a mesh topology. It can also be a form of wireless ad hoc network.Chai Keong Toh Ad Hoc Mobile Wireless Networks, Prentice Hall Publishers, 2002.
A m ...
. CBRP was originally designed in mid 1998 by the
National University of Singapore
The National University of Singapore (NUS) is a national public research university in Singapore. Founded in 1905 as the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States Government Medical School, NUS is the oldest autonomous university in th ...
and subsequently published as an Internet Draft
in August 1998. CBRP is one of the earlier hierarchical
ad-hoc routing protocols. In CBRP, nodes dynamically form clusters to maintain structural routing support and to minimize excessive discovery traffic typical for ad-hoc routing.
Many performance studies on CBRP have been conducted in the area of
Vehicular Ad-Hoc Network (VANET). CBRP is shown to perform moderately well in large and high density mesh networks
See also
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Wireless ad hoc networks
A wireless ad hoc network (WANET) or mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a decentralized type of wireless network. The network is ad hoc because it does not rely on a pre-existing infrastructure, such as routers in wired networks or access points ...
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Mesh networking
A mesh network is a local area network topology in which the infrastructure nodes (i.e. bridges, switches, and other infrastructure devices) connect directly, dynamically and non-hierarchically to as many other nodes as possible and cooperate wit ...
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List of Ad Hoc Routing Protocols
An ad hoc routing protocol is a convention, or standard, that controls how nodes decide which way to route packets between computing devices in a mobile ad hoc network.
In ad hoc networks, nodes are not familiar with the topology of their netwo ...
References
Ad hoc routing protocols
Mesh networking
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