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Title: Analysis of a distributed algorithm to determine multiple routes with path diversity in ad hoc networks.

Conference ·
OSTI ID:987096

With multipath routing in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), a source can establish multiple routes to a destination for routing data. In MANETs, mulitpath routing can be used to provide route resilience, smaller end-to-end delay, and better load balancing. However, when the multiple paths are close together, transmissions of different paths may interfere with each other, causing degradation in performance. Besides interference, the physical diversity of paths also improves fault tolerance. We present a purely distributed multipath protocol based on the AODV-Multipath (AODVM) protocol called AODVM with Path Diversity (AODVM/PD) that finds multiple paths with a desired degree of correlation between paths specified as an input parameter to the algorithm. We demonstrate through detailed simulation analysis that multiple paths with low degree of correlation determined by AODVM/PD provides both smaller end-to-end delay than AODVM in networks with low mobility and better route resilience in the presence of correlated node failures.

Research Organization:
Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Albuquerque, NM, and Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC04-94AL85000
OSTI ID:
987096
Report Number(s):
SAND2005-2140C; TRN: US201018%%216
Resource Relation:
Conference: Proposed for the 3rd International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks held April 3-7, 2005 in Riva del Garda, Italy.
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English