The great advances made in the wireless technology have enabled the deployment of
wireless communication networks in some of the harshest environments such as volcanoes …

In wireless sensor networks (WSN), routing is quite challenging area of research where
packets are forwarded through multiple nodes to the base station. The packet being sent …

Energy savings optimization becomes one of the major concerns in the wireless sensor
network (WSN) routing protocol design, due to the fact that most sensor nodes are equipped …

From the view of routing protocols in underwater sensor networks (UWSNs), the presence of
communication void, where the packet cannot be forwarded further using the greedy mode …

Opportunistic Routing (OR) is a new promising paradigm that has been proposed for
wireless networks. OR has gained a lot of attention from the research communities for its …

Underwater acoustic sensor networks (UW-ASNs) have recently been proposed for
exploring the underwater resources and gathering the scientific data from the aquatic …

In urban vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), due to the high mobility and uneven
distribution of vehicles, how to select an optimal relaying node in an intra-street and how to …

In this treatise, we first review some basic routing protocols conceived for ad hoc networks,
followed by some design examples of cross-layer operation aided routing protocols …

Increasing attention has recently been devoted to underwater sensor networks (UWSNs)
because of their capabilities in the ocean monitoring and resource discovery. UWSNs are …

A fundamental but challenging problem in cooperation and control of multiple unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs) is efficient networking of the UAVs over the wireless medium in …