SIAM Journal on Computing
Path set selection in mobile ad hoc networks
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking & computing
On the impact of alternate path routing for load balancing in mobile ad hoc networks
MobiHoc '00 Proceedings of the 1st ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking & computing
The IEEE 802.11 Handbook: A Designer's Companion
The IEEE 802.11 Handbook: A Designer's Companion
IEEE 802.11 Wireless Local Area Networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
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Because of frequent topology changes and node failures, providing quality of service routing in mobile ad hoc networks becomes a very critical issue. The quality of service can be provided by routing the data along multiple paths. Such selection of multiple paths helps to improve reliability and load balancing, reduce delay introduced due to route rediscovery in presence of path failures. There are basically two issues in such a multipath routing. Firstly, the sender node needs to obtain the exact topology information. Since the nodes are continuously roaming, obtaining the exact topology information is a tough task. Here, we propose an algorithm which constructs highly accurate network topology with minimum overhead. The second issue is that the paths in the path set should offer best reliability and network throughput. This is achieved in two ways 1) by choice of a proper metric which is a function of residual power, traffic load on the node and in the surrounding medium 2) by allowing the reliable links to be shared between different paths.