A framework for adaptive opportunistic forwarding in wireless networks

We present our initial work on the design and of an opportunistic forwarding scheme for a wireless network. The main focus in our work is to take advantage of the interplay of the lower layer parameters and thus decide the design aspects of the forwarding decisions for an adaptive probabilistic opportunistic forwarding scheme. We have already shown that our opportunistic scheme can outperform single path routing for moderate channel error values, we have also identified a tradeoff between differentiating the forwarder's back-off value to avoid collisions and reducing delay.