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Geographic routing has become an efficient solution for communications and information delivery in wireless ad hoc networks where the position information of nodes is available. This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of basic principles, classical techniques, as well as latest advances in geographic routing. The chapter first presents in detail the topic of geographic unicast routing, where the presentation is focused on two operation modes of geographic forwarding, that is, greedy forwarding and void handling. The chapter also briefly introduces three advanced topics in geographic routing: geographic multicast, geocast, and trajectory-based forwarding. Finally, the chapter makes some comments on the practical aspects of geographic routing for practitioners and discusses the directions for further research with a list of open issues in the area of geographic routing.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    This work was supported in part by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) under grant FA-9550-06-1-0277.

  2. 2.

    Geographic routing is also referred to as geo-routing, position-based routing, location-based routing in the literature.

  3. 3.

    The guarantee of packet delivery is ensured only at the topology level. Other factors such as packet collisions at the MAC layer or packet loss due to network congestion are not considered here.

  4. 4.

    This name is introduced for our convenience.

  5. 5.

    Mobility-induced loops [15] are not considered here.

  6. 6.

    We presented this category as flooding-based void handling in [11] and here we add some latest work to this category.

  7. 7.

    This name is introduced for our convenience.

  8. 8.

    We presented this category as cost-based void handling in [11]. After an in-depth study, we believe link reversal is the fundamental idea behind all solutions in this category.

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