doi: 10.18178/ijfcc.2016.5.3.462
On-demand Multipath Routing Protocols for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks: A Comparative Survey
Tariq A. Murshedi
1
,
Xingwei Wang
1
,
Hui Cheng
2
- 1 College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China.
- 2 School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool L3 3AF, UK.
Abstract
A Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) is aninfrastructure-less, self-organized and multi-hop network witha rapidly changing topology causing the wireless links to bebroken at any time. Routing in such a network is challengingdue to the mobility of its nodes and the challenge becomes moredifficult when the network size increases. Due to the limitedcapacity of a multi-hop path and the high dynamics of wirelesslinks, the single-path routing approach is unable to provideefficient high data rate transmission in MANETs. Themultipath routing is the routing technique of using multiplealternative paths through a network. Furthermore, whenever alink failure is detected on a primary route, the source node canselect the optimal route among multiple available routes.Therefore, the multipath routing approach is broadly utilized asone of the possible solutions to overcome the single-pathlimitation. Most of the multipath routing protocols are based onAd Hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV). The objective ofthis paper is to provide a survey and compare sets of multipathrouting protocols for mobile ad-hoc networks. This survey willmotivate the design of new multipath routing protocols, whichovercome the weaknesses identified in this paper.
Keywords
- Mobile ad-hoc networks
- on-demandmultipath routing
- single path routing
- dynamic source routing
- ad hoc on-demand distance vector
How to Cite
Tariq A. Murshedi, Xingwei Wang, and Hui Cheng, "On-demand Multipath Routing Protocols for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks: A Comparative Survey," International Journal of Future Computer and Communication, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 148-157, 2016. https://doi.org/ 10.18178/ijfcc.2016.5.3.462
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