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Multipath routing protocols are distinguished from single-path protocol by the fact that they use several paths to distribute traffic from a source to a destination instead of a single path. Multipath routing may improve system performance through load balancing and reduced end-to-end delay. However, two major issues that dictate the performance of multipath routing – how many paths are needed and how to select these paths. In this paper, we have addressed these two issues in the context of ad hoc wireless networks and shown that the success of multipath routing depends on the effects of route coupling during path selection. Route coupling, in wireless medium, occurs when two routes are located physically close enough to interfere with each other during data communication. Here, we have used a notion of zone-disjoint routes to minimize the effect of interference among routes in wireless medium. Moreover, the use of directional antenna in this context helps to decouple interfering routes easily compared to omni-directional antenna.
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Roy, S., Saha, D., Bandyopadhyay, S., Ueda, T., Tanaka, S. (2003). Improving End-to-End Delay through Load Balancing with Multipath Routing in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks Using Directional Antenna. In: Das, S.R., Das, S.K. (eds) Distributed Computing - IWDC 2003. IWDC 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2918. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24604-6_22
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