Fuzzy Controllers Based Multipath Routing Algorithm in MANET

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) consist of a collection of wireless mobile nodes which dynamically exchange data among themselves without the reliance on a fixed base station or a wired backbone network. Due to the limited transmission range of wireless network nodes, multiple hops are usually needed for a node to exchange information with any other node in the network. Multipath routing allows the establishment of multiple paths between a single source and single destination node. The multipath routing in mobile ad hoc networks is difficult because the network topology may change constantly, and the available alternative path is inherently unreliable. This paper introduces a fuzzy controllers based multipath routing algorithm in MANET (FMRM). The key idea of FMRM algorithm is to construct the fuzzy controllers with the help to reduce reconstructions in the ad hoc network. The simulation results show that the proposed approach is effective and efficient in applications to the MANETs. It is an available approach to multipath routing decision.