Traffic load Estimation and load balancing in multipath routing Mobile ad-hoc networks

Multi-path routing has been studied thoroughly in the context of wired networks. It has been shown that using multiple paths to route messages between any source-destination pair of nodes (instead of using a single path) balances the load more evenly throughout the network. This paper introduces a traffic estimator which makes calculations based on previously sent packets and we introduce a new model for evaluating the load balance under multi-path routing. In this paper, at first we proposed traffic load Estimation method based on an exponential decrease function and then we look into traffic estimation methods that are applicable in Mobile ad-hoc networks. On the other hand this paper is based on Poisson traffic. Assume you are implementing an ad-hoc network, where you know the traffic is Poisson distributed. We analyze and suggest fine tuning of windows size parameter for estimation of Poisson based traffic load. This traffic estimation method based on exponential decrease function may also work for other traffic models if fine tuning of the above parameter have been made.