A Hybrid Multi-Path Routing for Wireless Mesh Network Backbone

In this paper, a new routing algorithm applicable for wireless mesh network (WMN) backbone, called hybrid multi-path routing (HMR), is presented. Based on DSR (dynamic source routing), HMR applies multi-path routing to improve the performance and routing fault tolerance of WMN backbone. A hybrid approach which combines the source routing and routing table improves the performance of WMN backbone without incurring too much overhead. HMR have some advantages on fault tolerance, control overhead of transferring data and delay of switching between routes.