Highly dynamic Destination-Sequenced Distance-Vector routing (DSDV) for mobile computers
SIGCOMM '94 Proceedings of the conference on Communications architectures, protocols and applications
An efficient routing protocol for wireless networks
Mobile Networks and Applications - Special issue: routing in mobile communications networks
Infrastructure-based routing in wireless mobile ad hoc networks
Computer Communications
Scalable routing strategies for ad hoc wireless networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Performance Evaluation of a New End-to-End Traffic-Aware Routing in MANETs
ICPADS '06 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems - Volume 2
Performance Study of End-to-End Traffic-Aware Routing
ANSS '06 Proceedings of the 39th annual Symposium on Simulation
Fair content dissemination in participatory DTNs
Ad Hoc Networks
Performance comparison of end-to-end and on-the-spot traffic-aware techniques
International Journal of Communication Systems
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An ad hoc wireless mobile network is an infrastructure-less mobile network that has no fixed routers; instead, all nodes are capable of movement and can be connected dynamically in an arbitrary manner. In order to facilitate communication of mobile nodes that may not be within the wireless range of each other, an efficient routing protocol is used to discover routes between nodes so that messages may be delivered in a timely manner. In this paper, we present a novel Load-Balanced Ad hoc Routing (LBAR) protocol for communication in wireless ad hoc networks. LBAR defines a new metric for routing known as the degree of nodal activity to represent the load on a mobile node. In LBAR routing information on all paths from source to destination are forwarded through setup messages to the destination. Setup messages include nodal activity information of all nodes on the traversed path. After collecting information on all possible paths, the destination then makes a selection of the path with the best-cost value and sends an acknowledgement to the source node. LBAR also provides an alternate path maintenance technique to patch up broken links by detouring traffic to the destination. A comprehensive simulation study was conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed scheme. Performance results show that LBAR outperforms existing ad hoc routing protocols in terms of packet delivery and average end-to-end delay.