Abstract—Wireless-Optical Broadband Access Network (WOBAN) is a hybrid network technology. The performance of Front-End is very low as compared to the Back-End. In recent years, research has been accelerated to reduce the delay in forwarding the data packet in the wireless part of WOBAN. So number of protocols and algorithms have been designed and proposed in this regard. In order to find the shortest path with the least delay, the intermediate nodes have to do so many calculation, processing and decision making. So in this paper we propose a technique for forwarding the packet through shortest path having least delay while having very lesser calculation in order to save processing time thus reducing the delay in forwarding the packet in the wireless part of WOBAN.

Index Terms—Network technology, protocol, WOBAN,reduced processing.

Asad Ali is with the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Islamabad,Pakistan (e-mail: asad.ali@seecs.edu.pk).

Cite: Asad Ali, "Routing in the Front-End of WOBAN with Reduced Processing in the Intermediate Nodes," International Journal of Computer and Communication Engineering vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 10-12 , 2013.