Performance of multi-path routing in manet with long-tailed traffic

The dynamic source routing (DSR) method has received much attention in the studies and practice of mobile ad hoc networking. Efforts toward mitigating the overhead have been made by using the multi-path routing strategy. Conventional performance evaluations were conducted with the exponential distribution of the link life. In this paper, we evaluate the performance through a long-tailed distribution called the compound log-normal distribution. The reliability archetypes of the series and parallel connections have been used in developing the concerned models. The overall system reliability of ad hoc networks with multi-path routing is also investigated