DLFR: Taming stochastic behavior of Global Networks.

Summary Mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) are difficult to support real time services efficiently because of their unpredictable and frequent topology changes. One of the important concerns is the reliability of routes. Although finding optimal path for MANET is incompletely defined problem and specific routing protocols trade off efficiency for the reliability. In particular, typical shortest path estimating routing protocols use redundant paths to achieve reliability. In this paper, we propose a new routing protocol for estimating the shortest path in such open networks by introducing a statistical metric for “the reliable routing path selection”.