Load-Balanced Routing in Ad hoc Networks

Many multipath routing protocols proposed to date have used destination sequence numbers to provide multiple loop-free paths to destinations. We present the first on-demand multipath routing protocol for ad hoc networks that uses source sequence numbers to maintain loop-free routes. We propose a novel load-balancing scheme that incurs very little control overhead. Extensive simulations illustrate that the proposed multipath protocol performs better than single-path approaches and that the proposed load-balancing scheme performs better than basic round-robin scheduling.