ABSTRACT

It is suggested that multi-path routing is advantageous for applications with high traffic data characteristics, especially in the WSN environment. Sensor networks which transmit video will have to respond to the high data characteristic inherent in video data. Throughput, delay and packet loss are important metrics when considering video traffic. This work measures the performance of four multi-path routing protocols, MAOMDV, AOMDV, AntHocNet and MP-DSR in the WSN environment. It is shown that MAOMDV outperforms the other multi-path routing protocols in terms of the aforementioned metrics.

Keywords: - multi-path, WSN, video, throughput, delay, packet loss.