Copyright © 200x Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. A Flexible Family of Multi-Path Routing Protocols over a

Abstract: This paper’s contribution is a family of multi-path routing protocols that emphasize different aspects of multi-path routing, though with a central theme of path reliability within a MANET. Tests demonstrate that for all members of the family, the network performance (end-to-end delay and packet loss ratio) compares favorably to the single-path DSR protocol at moderate to high speeds, though as might be expected there is a trade-off against control packet overhead. Where the design effort differs from other multi-path protocol reviewed is that different aspects of the performance are emphasized in different members of the protocol family. The paper gives analysis on how a member of the family is constructed to perform in a particular way. In a general sense, this is the main message of the paper: that such protocol families can be constructed with a particular application type in mind, which in this case was media streaming