  Recently, there has been growing research on developing interference-aware
routing (IAR) protocols for supporting multiple concurrent transmission in
next-generation wireless communication systems. The existing IAR protocols do
not consider node cooperation while establishing the routes because motivating
the nodes to cooperate and modeling that cooperation is not a trivial task. In
addition, the information about the cooperative behavior of a node is not
directly visible to neighboring nodes. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a
new routing method in which the nodes' cooperation information is utilized to
improve the performance of edge computing-enabled 5G networks. The proposed
metric is a function of created and received interference in the network. The
received interference term ensures that the Signal to Interference plus Noise
Ratio (SINR) at the route remains above the threshold value, while the created
interference term ensures that those nodes are selected to forward the packet
that creates low interference for other nodes. The results show that the
proposed solution improves ad hoc networks' performance compared to
conventional routing protocols in terms of high network throughput and low
outage probability.
