Load Balancing With Multipath Routing In MANAET

Mobile ad hoc network is a col lection of wireless mobile nodes, such devices as PDAs, mobile phones, laptops etc. that are connected over a wireless medium. There is no pre-existing communication infrastructure (no access points, no base stations) and the nodes can freely move and self-organize into a network topology. Hence, balancing the load in a MANET is important because the nodes in MANET have limited communication resources such as bandwidth, buffer space, and battery power. Most of the current routing protocols for mobile Ad-hoc networks consider the shortest path which is having minimum hop count as optimal route without considering any particular node’s traffic and resulting in degradation of the performance by causing serious problems in any perticular mobile node like congestion, queuing delay and power depletion. Therefore it is very attractive to investigate Routing protocols which use a Routing Metric to Balance Load in Ad-hoc net-works. This paper discusses about LBMPR (Load balancingwith multipath Routing Protocol) for efficient data transmission in MANETs. Key t e r m s : Load Balancing, Mobile Ad hoc Networks, Multipath Routing