About Ad hoc On-Demand Multi-Path Distance Vector Routing for Mobile Ad hoc Networks

Abstract: In Mobile Ad hoc NETwork (MANET), routing is one of the most important problems and is widely studied in the world. Routing greatly affects performance of the network. Multi-path routing is a technique that uses multiple paths between the source and the destination. Its advantages are that it increases throughput, reliability and reduces end-to-end delay, and so on.In this paper, we compare performance ofthe Ad hoc On-demand Multi-path Distance Vector routing (AOMDV) andthe Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Routing (AODV) in terms of Packet Delivery Fraction, Routing overhead and Nomalize Routing Load. Simulation results show that the AOMDV’ packet delivery fraction outperforms that of the AODV. Our results also show that AOMDV’Routing overhead and Nomalize Routing Loadare less than AODV. Keywords:Mobile Ad Hoc Networks; Routing Protocol; AODV; AOMDV.