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JOURNAL OF NETWORK AND COMPUTER APPLICATIONS
Volume 32, Issue 6, Pages 1125-1143Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnca.2009.07.002
Keywords
Mobile ad hoc network; Routing protocols; Multipath routing; Shortest path routing; Alternative paths; Load distribution; Reliability; Energy efficiency; Overhead; Hybrid routing
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
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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. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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