Load-Balancing Approach for AOMDV in Ad-Hoc Networks

Routing protocol is a challenging issue in ad hoc networks. It has been studied thoroughly these years. However, most routing protocols in ad hoc network do not consider the problem of load balance. This paper presents an effective scheme to balance the load in ad hoc network. Ad-hoc On demand Multipath Distance Vector (AOMDV) selects a path with a lower hop count and discards routes with higher hop count. The new scheme can be applied in most on-demand routing protocols.