Stable connections using multi-paths and conservative neighborhood ranges in mobile ad hoc networks

As the demand for mobile ad hoc wireless network applications grows, so does their use for many important services where reliability and stability of the communication paths are of great importance. Therefore, a mobile ad hoc network (MANET) must be able to establish reliable communication channels which are protected by failure recovery protocols. One approach for existing failure recovery protocols is based on using backup paths, or multi-paths. This technique provides for more stable communication channels for wireless services, in particular for MANET applications. In this work, we explore the use of a more general backup paths, re-establishing broken paths from the last reachable node, and conservative range for neighbor selection to improve the stability of connections and throughput for a greedy routing based multipath routing protocol for MANETs.