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On-Demand Multipath Routing for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

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Abstract

Mobile ad hoc networks are characterized by multi-hop wireless links, absence of any cellular infrastructure, and frequent host mobility. Design of efficient routing protocols in such networks is a challenging issue. A class of routing protocols called on-demand protocols has recently found attention because of their low routing overhead. The on-demand protocols depend on query floods to discover routes whenever a new route is needed. Such floods take up a substantial portion of network bandwidth. We focus on a particular on-demand protocol, called Dynamic Source Routing, and show how intelligent use of multipath techniques can reduce the frequency of query floods. We develop an analytic modeling framework to determine the relative frequency of query floods for various techniques. Results show that while multipath routing is significantly better than single path routing, the performance advantage is small beyond a few paths and for long path lengths. It also shows that providing all intermediate nodes in the primary (shortest) route with alternative paths has a significantly better performance than providing only the source with alternate paths.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 8th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN 1999
EditorsArun Somani, EK Park, Sudhir Dixit
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages64-70
Number of pages7
ISBN (Print)0780357949, 9780780357945
DOIs
StatePublished - 1999
Event8th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN 1999 - Boston, United States
Duration: Oct 11 1999Oct 13 1999

Publication series

NameProceedings - 8th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN 1999

Conference

Conference8th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN 1999
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityBoston
Period10/11/9910/13/99

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