Wireless routing seems to suffer from something akin to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle: as one tries to measure or use a wireless path, the less reliable that path appears. This can lead to switching back and forth between the optimal path and a less optimal one.
A simplistic idea (and probably flawed, but it's a start) is to use more channels for wireless networking; separate the data and information channels such that a node in a wireless network can report its status without affecting the current data flows. Granted, it would still need to account for interference, but at least we could remove one source of entropy in a proposed routing protocol.
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