Simple and Efficient Loop-Free Multipath Routing in Wireless Networks
Jose Joaquin Garcia-Luna-Aceves, Dylan Cirimelli-Low · 2023
RIPPLE-WiN (Routing Information Protocol with Probing for Looplessness and Efficiency in Wireless Networks) is introduced. RIPPLE-WiN replaces the sequence numbers that are used in popular routing protocols for wireless networks like OLSR, AODV and DSDV to validate updates or support loop freedom with hop-count reference distances. Such reference distances allow routers to eliminate routing-table loops with minimum signaling overhead. Simulation experiments based on the ns-3 simulator are used to illustrate that RIPPLE-WiN is much more effective that OLSR, DSDV and AODV. The simulation results show that RIPPLE-WiN attains better packet delivery rates and delays than the other routing protocols in the presence of failures and mobility while incurring less signaling overhead.