Area anycast is a very specialized operation in scalable wireless ad hoc networks. In this operation a group of nodes belonging to a pre-specified network region, are capable of receiving Area anycast message. Here anycast source communicates with most eligible destination within the anycast region. By most eligible destination we mean the one that has higher probability in residing within anycast region for a long time, hopefully till the end of anycast communication session. This requires

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... tering where a node outperforms another by its merit. All the cluterheads send route-reply packet to the anycast source and based on number of hops travelled by these route-reply packets, only one eligible destination is elected by the source. As far as scheduling of packets is concerned, we schedule unicast, multicast, broadcast and anycast packets separately. In this article, we have illustrated scheduling scheme for anycast packets only. The scheme has been compared with first-come-first-served or FCFS and longest hop-length first or LHLF. Simulation results demonstrate that our scheme anycast-scheduler or ANSCHED performs much better than FCFS and LHLF.