Abstract-Research on multi-path routing protocols to provide improved throughput and route resilience as compared with single-path routing has been explored in details in the context of wired networks. However, multi-path routing mechanism has not been explored thoroughly in the domain of ad hoc networks. In this paper, we analyze and compare reactive single-path and multi-path routing with load balance mechanisms in ad hoc networks, in terms of overhead, traffic distribution and connection throughput. The results reveals that in comparison with general single-path routing protocol, multi-path routing mechanism creates more overheads but provides better performance in congestion and capacity provided that the route length is within a certain upper bound which is derivable. The analytical results are further confirmed by simulation. Index Terms-ad-hoc networks, load balancing, multi-path routing, overheads.
Peter and Sylvie REF present the performance analysis of multi-path routing and describe how the multi-path routing is suitable for the load balancing mechanism in an ad-hoc network than a single path routing. But multi-paths can contain shared link(s) in their paths and these paths may not be disjoint paths between any source -destination pair.
Performance analysis of reactive shortest path and multipath routing mechanism with load balance
IEEE INFOCOM 2003. Twenty-second Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies (IEEE Cat. No.03CH37428)
IEEE INFOCOM 2003. Twenty-second Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies (IEEE Cat. No.03CH37428)
Computer Science