A multipath routing protocol based on bloom filter for multi-hop wireless networks

On-demand multipath routing in a mobile ad hoc network is effective in achieving load balancing over the network and more robust to mobility. In this paper, a node-disjoint multipath routing protocol is proposed, which forms opportunistic node-disjoint routes for data transmission and supports packet salvaging. The proposed scheme reduces routing overhead in forming multiple routes and achieves efficient recovery of route breaks. Simulation results show that our routing mechanism outperforms the compared protocols in terms of packet delivery ratio and normalized routing load.