Review: Survey of multipath routing protocols for mobile ad hoc networks

  • Authors:
  • Mohammed Tarique;Kemal E. Tepe;Sasan Adibi;Shervin Erfani

  • Affiliations:
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department, American International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh;Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ont., Canada;Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ont., Canada;Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ont., Canada

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Network and Computer Applications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This survey investigates multipath routing protocols for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). The main objectives of multipath routing protocols are to provide reliable communication and to ensure load balancing as well as to improve quality of service (QoS) of MANETs. These multipath protocols are broadly classified into five categories based on their major goals. The goals are to improve delay, provide reliability, reduce overhead, maximize network life and support hybrid routing. Multipath routing protocols address issues such as multiple paths discovery and maintaining these paths. Issues, objectives, performances, advantages and disadvantages of these protocols are investigated and summarized. A checklist is provided as a guideline so that a network designer can choose an appropriate multipath routing protocol to meet the network's application objectives.