Balanced Multipath Source Routing

The authors consider the problem of balancing the traffic load ideally over a wireless multi-hop network. In previous work, a systematic approach to this task was undertaken, starting with an approximate optimisation method that guarantees a provable congestion performance bound, and then designing a distributed implementation by modifying the DSR protocol. In this paper, the performance of the resulting Balanced Multipath Source Routing (BMSR) protocol is validated in a number of simulated networking scenarios.