SIGCOMM '92 Conference proceedings on Communications architectures & protocols
A performance comparison of multi-hop wireless ad hoc network routing protocols
MobiCom '98 Proceedings of the 4th annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Mobile computing and networking
An adaptive MAC and idrectional routing protocol for ad hoc wireless network using ESPAR antenna
MobiHoc '01 Proceedings of the 2nd 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
Load-balancing in MANET shortest-path routing protocols
Ad Hoc Networks
Movement-aware alternative path routing protocol for vehicular multi-hop communications
Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Hybrid Information Technology
Using zone-disjoint multi-path routing algorithm for video transmission over ad-hoc networks
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Interaction Sciences: Information Technology, Culture and Human
Directional antenna for multipath ad hoc routing
CCNC'09 Proceedings of the 6th IEEE Conference on Consumer Communications and Networking Conference
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Finding multiple induced disjoint paths in general graphs
Information Processing Letters
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Several routing schemes have been proposed in the context of mobile ad hoc network. Some of them use multiple paths simultaneously by splitting the information among multitude of paths, as it may help to reduce end-to-end delay and perform load balancing. Multipath routing also diminishes the effects of unreliable wireless links in the constantly changing topology of ad hoc networks to a large extent. Route coupling, caused by the interference during the simultaneous communication through multiple paths between a pair of source and destination, severely limits the performance gained by multipath routing. Using node disjoint multiple paths to avoid coupling is not at all sufficient to improve the routing performance in this context. Route coupling may be reduced to a great extent if zone disjoint or even partially zone disjoint paths are used for data communication. Two paths are said to be zone disjoint if data communication through one path does not interfere with other paths. Large path length (number of hops) also contributes to the performance degradation resulting in high end to end delay. So zone disjoint shortest multipath is the best choice under high traffic condition. However, it is difficult to get zone disjoint or even partially zone disjoint multiple routes using omni-directional antenna. This difficulty may be overcome if directional antenna is used with each mobile node. In this paper, we have done a comparative study on the performance of multipath routing using omni-directional and directional antenna. The result of the simulation study clearly shows that directional antenna improves the performance of multipath routing significantly as compared to that with omni-directional antenna.