Routing data packets in wireless networks with directional transmissions

An apparatus for communicating via a routing protocol in a wireless network having directional transmission, comprising:

• (a) a transceiver configured for communicating over a wireless network with peer stations;
• (b) a computer processor coupled to said transceiver;
• and
• (c) a non-transitory computer-readable memory storing instructions executable by the computer processor;
• (d) wherein said instructions, when executed by the computer processor, perform steps comprising:
• (i) identifying reliable peer stations utilizing Beamforming (BF) training feedback metrics among the neighboring wireless device;
• (ii) transmitting routing discovery messages to reliable peer stations in a unicast transmission mode;
• (iii) disseminating neighborhood discovery lists among peer station on the network in a unicast transmission mode;
• and
• (iv) constructing routing tables that extract best route between a source and a destination station, wherein messages can be routed using said routing table from a source peer station, through intermediate peer stations, to a destination peer station.