Split Multi-Path Routing Protocol with Load Balancing Policy (SMR-LB) to Improve TCP Performance in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Conference: PIMRC 2005 - 16th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications
09/11/2005 - 09/14/2005 at Berlin, Germany
Proceedings: PIMRC 2005
Pages: 5Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Murakami, Takeshi; Sasase, Iwao (Dept. of Information and Computer Science, Keio University, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8522, Japan)
Bandai, Masaki (Dept. of Computer Science, Shizuoka University, Johoku 3-5-1, Hamamatsu 432-8011, Japan)
Abstract:
In this paper, we propose Split Multi-path Routing protocol with Load Balancing policy (SMR-LB) to improve TCP performance in mobile ad hoc networks. In SMR-LB, each intermediate node records how many primary paths are attemped to construct as well as the source ID which attempts to construct the primary path. Each intermediate node decides which primary path should be constructed by using the primary path and the source ID information. As a result, SMR-LB can utilize the load balancing policy to reduce the probability of congestion and avoid the continuous link breakages between the specific source and destination pair. We show that SMR-LB can improve TCP performance compared with the conventional protocols by computer simulation.