An adaptive multipath source routing protocol for congestion control and load balancing in MANET
Rambabu Yerajana, Anil K. Sarje · 2009
In this paper, we propose a new Multipath routing protocol for ad hoc wireless networks, which is based on the DSR (Dynamic Source Routing)-On demand Routing Protocol. Congestion is the main reason for packet loss in mobile ad hoc networks. If the workload is distributed among the nodes in the system, based on the congestion of the paths, the average execution time can be minimized and the lifetime of the nodes can be maximized. We propose a scheme to distribute load between multiple paths according to the congestion status of the path. Our simulation results confirm that the proposed protocol-CCSR improves the throughput and reduces the number of collisions in the network