The number of portable electronic devices capable of maintaining wireless communications increases day by day. Such mobile nodes may easily self-configure to form a Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) without the help of any established infrastructure. As the number of mobile devices grows, the demand of multimedia services such as video-streaming from these networks is foreseen to increase as well. ...

In wireless networks, the trade-off between reliability and efficiency is often obtained through multipath routing schemes. In multipath environments, such as those found in sensor networks, traditional internet routing solutions cannot be employed. Moreover, because multipath construction and maintenance is costly, a common alternative is using braided meshes, where it is difficult to calculat...

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are special kind of distributed networks that comprise wireless mobile nodes which can freely and dynamically self-organize into capricious and temporary manner. The demand for ubiquitous information access and spontaneous information exchange has multiplied considerably and with predictions to grow even more within the future. To satisfy this increasing demand, ...

With increasing deployment of unmanned and energy-constrained sensor devices in large-scale mobile ad hoc networks; the aspect of an energy efficient network lifetime have become the key consideration in designing ad hoc routing protocols. Routing protocols are required in network to deliver packets from source to destination. The multipath routing provides the concept of load balancing for eff...

In this paper we introduce a new routing algorithm for wireless sensor networks. The aim of this algorithm is to provide on-demand multiple disjoint paths between a data source and a destination. Our Multipath On-Demand Routing Algorithm (MDR) improves the reliability of data routing in a wireless mobile network while maintaining the amount of overhead traffic at a low value. An important featu...

In this paper we consider a multipath extension to the dynamic source routing (DSR) protocol proposed by Johnson and Maltz, an on-demand routing protocol for ad hoc wireless networks. This extension keeps two node disjoint paths between the source and the destination of a routing process without introducing extra overhead. Several optimization options are also considered. Simulation is conducte...

Mobile ad-hoc networks (MANET) are characterized as networks without any physical connections. In these networks there is no fixed topology due to the mobility of nodes, interference, multipath propagation and path loss. Hence a dynamic routing protocol is needed for these networks to function properly. Many Routing protocols have been developed for accomplishing this task. MANET routing protoc...

Multipath traffic engineering utilizes several multiple paths for transporting the traffic demand between source LSR and destination LSR. Using the multipath, we can effectively control the network resource utilization. If maximally disjoint multiple LSPs are found, the multipath traffic engineering can provide appropriate fault-tolerant routing. In this paper, we propose the fault-tolerant mul...

In recent years, ad hoc networks have attracted a great deal of attention. Ad hoc networks consist of nodes with wireless communication devices without any base stations or fixed infrastructures. Most routing protocols of ad hoc networks form a single-path. Single-path routing protocols need to repair routes each time the route has broken. This route repair generates a lot of control packets, a...