Abstract:An ad hoc network is a collection of wireless mobile nodes dynamically forming a temporary network without the use of any existing network infrastructure or centralized administration. Due to bandwidth constraint and dynamic topology of mobile ad hoc networks, multipath supported routing is a very important research issue. In this paper, we present an entropy-based metric to support stability multipath on-demand routing (SMDR). The key idea of SMDR protocol is to construct the new metric-entropy and select the stability multipath with the help of entropy metric to reduce the number of route reconstruction so as to provide QoS guarantee in the ad hoc network whose topology changes continuously. Simulation results show that, with the proposed multipath routing protocol, packet delivery ratio, end-to-end delay, and routing overhead ratio can be improved in most of cases. It is an available approach to multipath routing decision.