TITLE:
MSDM: Maximally Spatial Disjoint Multipath Routing Protocol for MANET
AUTHORS:
Wesam Almobaideen, Roba Al-Soub, Azzam Sleit
KEYWORDS:
MANET; Routing Protocols; Multipath Routing; Spatial Disjoint Paths
JOURNAL NAME:
Communications and Network,
Vol.5 No.4,
November
14,
2013
ABSTRACT: Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET) consists of
mobile nodes that are connected via very dynamic multi-hop channels. Routing in
MANET is a challenging task that has received great attention from researchers.
In this paper we present Maximally Spatial Disjoint Multipath routing protocol
(MSDM) which is a modification of AOMDV protocol. MSDM finds paths which are
spatially separated and maximally disjointed. We think that sending various
packets over spatially disjointed paths reduces the probability of collision
occurrence and allows concurrent transmission over the set of different
selected paths. Performance comparison of MSDM and AOMDV using GloMoSim
simulator shows that MSDM is able to achieve a considerable improvement
regarding some performance metrics such as delay, routing packets overhead, and
network throughput.