≤≤ ⎡⎤ , where M is the number of cooperative nodes. If the average hops between the sender node and its short-cut node is approximately equal to one hope by using the cooperative communication link, the average path length of SCR is () 2 log [] n O q . Compared with other existing
['Min Sheng', 'Jiandong Li', 'Hongyan Li', 'Yan Shi']
Small World Based Cooperative Routing Protocol for Large Scale Wireless Ad Hoc Networks