On-demand multipath routing in wireless ad-hoc networks can be effective in achieving load balancing over the network and in providing a degree of resilience to route failures. A Shortest Multipath Source Routing (SMS) protocol is proposed - a multipath extension to DSR - supporting multimedia applications. The protocol has two novel aspects compared to other on-demand multipath routing protocols: it achieves shorter multiple partial-disjoint paths and allows rapid recovery of route breaks Simulation results show that SMS outperforms the competing protocols with respect to a number of key performance metrics.
Index Terms:
ad-hoc networks; multipath routing; multimedia applications; shortest multipath source routing; partial-disjoint
Citation:
Haseeb Zafar, David Harle, Ivan Andonovic, Mahmood Ashraf, "Partial-Disjoint Multipath Routing for Wireless Ad-hoc Networks," lcn, pp.258-259, 32nd IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2007), 2007