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ABR was granted a US patent 5987011<ref>{{citation |title="A Routing Method for Ad Hoc Mobile Networks" |url=https://www.google.com/patents/US5987011}}</ref> and the assignee being [[King's College Cambridge]], UK. ABR was subsequently licensed to a US defense corporation.
Tactical Mobile Ad Hoc Networks bloom with US defense spending<ref>{{citecitation |title="US Defense Spending Outlook" |url=https://cit.com/thought-leadership/us-defense-spending-industry-outlook/?cmp=paidsearch&gclid=Cj0KEQiAperBBRDfuMf72sr56fIBEiQAPFXszXJSUmhVzQx8nvTO-_D_DomeLEkW4rqNBnL09JQb8l4aAuaU8P8HAQ&jcpid=8a8ae4cd56581431015659d1200a185b&jsf=790d9e37-8253-492c-9760-301ebc6d7513:35584}}</ref> over $2 Billion in programs and research by [[DARPA]], DoD, Air Force, Coast Guards, and US Navy.<ref>{{citation |title="Naval Communications" |url=https://www.nap.edu/read/11605/chapter/8#153}}</ref>
In October 2013, the '''Storm Disaster Sandy''' hit the USA, and US Coast Guards used mobile ad hoc
* General Dynamics
* SAIC
* BAE
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Quite a few other mobile ad hoc routing protocols have incorporated ABR's stability concept or have done extensions and enhancement of ABR, such as Signal
Stability-based Adaptive Routing Protocol ('''SSA'''),<ref>{{citation |title="Signal stability based adaptive routing (SSA) for ad-hoc mobile networks"|url=http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=241244}}</ref> Enhanced Associativity Based Routing Protocol ('''EABR'''),<ref>{{citation |title="Enhanced Associativity Based Routing Protocol"|url=http://thescipub.com/PDF/jcssp.2006.853.858.pdf}}</ref> Alternative Enhancement of Associativity-Based Routing ('''AEABR'''),<ref>{{citation |title="Alternative Enhancement of Associativity-Based Routing"|url=http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-11817-3_7#page-1
}}</ref> Optimized Associativity Threshold Routing ('''OABTR'''),<ref>{{citation |title="Optimized Associativity Threshold Routing"|url=http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.79.8653&rep=rep1&type=pdf}}</ref> Cluster Based Enhanced Associativity-Based Routing ('''CBE-ABR'''),<ref>{{citation |title="CBE-ABR: A Cluster Based Enhanced Routing Protocol for Ad Hoc Mobile Networks" |url=http://airccse.org/journal/cnc/1009s5.pdf}}</ref> Associativity-Based Clustering Protocol ('''ABCP'''),<ref>{{citation |title="Associativity-Based Clustering Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks" |url=https://jan.newmarch.name/conferences/ccnc05/DATA/1-N03-04.PDF}}</ref>, Stability-Based Multihop Clustering ('''SBMC'''),<ref>{{citecitation |title="Stability-Based Multi-Hop Clustering Protocol" |url=http://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/43823278/Stability-based_multi-hop_clustering_pro20160317-32218-jdn2wu.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJ56TQJRTWSMTNPEA&Expires=1480260646&Signature=p5yhUuqrcgQ5iZAIeUQmmgN%2BPGs%3D&response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3DStability-Based_Multi-Hop_Clustering_Pro.pdf}}</ref>, Associativity-Based Energy Aware Clustering ('''AB-EAC'''),<ref>{{citecitation |title="An Associativity Based Energy Aware Clustering Technique for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks" |url=http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-14493-6_37}}</ref>, Fuzzy Based Trust Associativity-Based Routing ('''Fuzzy-ABR'''), Associativity Tick Averaged Associativity-Based Routing ('''ATA-AR'''),<ref>{{citation |title="Associativity Tick Averaged Associativity-Based Routing for Realtime Mobile Networks" |url=http://www.emo.org.tr/ekler/8a07694d909694a_ek.pdf}}</ref> Self-adaptive Q-learning based trust ABR ('''QTABR'''),<ref>{{citation |title="Self-Adaptive Trust Based ABR Protocol for MANETs Using Q-Learning" |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4164804/}}</ref> Quality of Service Extensions to ABR ('''QoSE-ABR'''),<ref>{{citation |title="Adding Quality of Service Extensions to the Associativity Based Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks"|url=http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1487990}}</ref> TABU Search Initiated Associativity-Based Routing ('''TIG-ABR'''),<ref>{{citation |title="Improved Associativity Based Routing for Multi Hop Networks Using TABU Initialized Genetic Algorithm" |url=http://www.ripublication.com/ijaer16/ijaerv11n7_28.pdf}}</ref> Associativity-based Multicast Routing ('''ABAM'''),<ref>{{citation |title="ABAM: On-Demand Associativity-Based Multicast" |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/3874369_ABAM_On-Demand_Associativity-Based_Multicast_Routing_for_Ad_Hoc_Mobile_Networks}}</ref> Multipath Associativity Based Routing ('''MABR'''),<ref>{{citation |title="Multipath Associativity Based Routing"|url=http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1044034}}</ref> and so on. The stability concept is also applied to [[wireless sensor network]]s<ref>{{citation |title="Associative routing for wireless sensor networks" |url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140366411000326}}</ref> and [[vehicular ad hoc network]]s (VANETs).<ref>{{citation |title="A Stable Routing Protocol for Vehicles in Urban Environments" |url=http://dsn.sagepub.com/content/9/11/759261.full}}</ref>
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