A multipath AODV routing protocol in mobile ad hoc networks with SINR-based route selection

This paper proposes a multipath routing protocol called cross-layered multipath AODV (CM-AODV), which selects multiple routes on demand based on the signal-to-interference plus noise ratio (SINR) measured at the physical layer. Note that AODV (ad hoc on-demand distance vector) is one of the most popular routing protocols for mobile ad hoc networks. Each time a route request (RREQ) message is forwarded hop by hop, each forwarding node updates the route quality which is defined as the minimum SINR of serialized links in a route and contained in the RREQ header. Compared to the conventional multipath version of AODV protocol (which is called AOMDV), CM-AODV assigns the construction of multiple paths to the destination node and makes it algorithmically simple, resulting in the improved performance of packet delivery and the less overhead incurred at intermediate nodes. Our performance study shows that CMAODV significantly outperforms AOMDV in terms of packet delivery ratio and average end-to-end delay, but results in up to 45 percent less routing overhead.