Geographic routing in wireless sensor networks suffers from the local minimum phenomenon. To help packets get out of local minimum phenomenon
the long-known right-hand rule is used
which needs the graphs planarizing. It will lost many links and doesn’t suit adaptive routing. Through studying the local minimum phenomenon deeply
we find out that greedy forwarding in restricting routing regions could deal with the local minimum phenomenon. Based on the observation
a new method Clockwise Rule was proposed
which does not lost any links and more suits adaptive routing. We also proposed an adaptive parallel multi-path routing algorithm (APMR) using Clockwise Rule
which can provide various routing strategies and switch these strategies at relay nodes freely. Simulations show that APMR can significantly improve the performance of wireless sensor networks.