Multipath routing mechanism with load balancing in ad hoc network

Abstract

Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANET) are wireless networks consisting of a collection of mobile nodes with no fixed infrastructure. Due to their decentralized, self-configuring and dynamic nature, MANETs offer many advantages and are easy to install. But with this dynamic topology, mobile ad hoc networks have some challenges like the design of an efficient routing protocol. An example for this challenge is load balancing. The multipath routing protocol with load balancing provides a solution for the congestion network and increases it's capacity. To consider that the use of multiple paths simultaneously for transmission data allows to improve the network performance, we propose a new protocol LB-AOMDV (Load Balancing-AOMDV), a solution to achieve better load balancing mechanism. The simulation's result shows the significant performance improvement of the network for the multipath routing protocol with load balancing. The proposed solution LB-AOMDV works better than other protocols in terms of average delay, capacity and load balance.