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Abstract

The performance of ad hoc routing protocols will


significantly degrade, if there are malfunctioned nodes in the
network. Fault tolerant routing protocols address this
problem by exploring the network redundancy through
multipath routing.Designing an effective and efficient fault
tolerant routing protocol is inherently hard, because the
problem is NP-complete and the precise path information is
unavailable. This paper solves this problem by presenting an
end-to-end estimation-based fault tolerant routing algorithm
E2FT. E2FT deploys two complementary processes: route
estimation and route selection. Through endto-end
performance measurement, the route estimation process
gives improving estimation results via iterations. Based on
these estimation results, the route selection process decides a
multipath route for packet delivery. The route selection is
refined progressively with the increasingly accurate
estimation result using “confirmation” and “dropping”
procedures. Through theoretical analysis and simulation, we
show E2FT can achieve a high packet delivery rate with
acceptable overhead.

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