Multipath routing is an alternative routing technique, which uses redundant paths to deliver data from source to destination.\nCompared to single path routing protocols, it can address reliability, delay, and energy consumption issues.Thus,multipath routing\nis a potential technique to overcome the long propagation delay and adverse link condition in underwater environment. However,\nthere are still some problems in multipath routing. For example, the multiple paths may interfere with each other and arouse large\nend-to-end delay difference amongst multiple paths. This paper proposes a novel multipath routing structure and a conflict-free\nalgorithm based on TDMA scheme.The forwarding nodes are selected based on the propagation delay and location information.\nThis special multiple routing structure not only can ensure parallel multiple transmission without collision, but also can get a small\nend-to-end delay difference amongst multiple paths. Simulation results show that the multipath routing scheme proposed in this\npaper outperforms the traditional strategy.
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