<s>
Multipath	B-Protocol
routing	I-Protocol
is	O
a	O
routing	B-Protocol
technique	O
simultaneously	O
using	O
multiple	O
alternative	O
paths	O
through	O
a	O
network	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
can	O
yield	O
a	O
variety	O
of	O
benefits	O
such	O
as	O
fault	B-General_Concept
tolerance	I-General_Concept
,	O
increased	O
bandwidth	O
,	O
and	O
improved	O
security	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
To	O
improve	O
performance	O
or	O
fault	B-General_Concept
tolerance	I-General_Concept
,	O
concurrent	O
multipath	B-Protocol
routing	I-Protocol
(	O
CMR	O
)	O
is	O
often	O
taken	O
to	O
mean	O
simultaneous	O
management	O
and	O
utilization	O
of	O
multiple	O
available	O
paths	O
for	O
the	O
transmission	O
of	O
streams	O
of	O
data	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
provides	O
a	O
degree	O
of	O
fault	B-General_Concept
tolerance	I-General_Concept
in	O
that	O
should	O
a	O
path	O
fail	O
,	O
only	O
the	O
traffic	O
assigned	O
to	O
that	O
path	O
is	O
affected	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
CMR	O
provides	O
better	O
transmission	O
performance	O
and	O
fault	B-General_Concept
tolerance	I-General_Concept
by	O
providing	O
simultaneous	O
,	O
parallel	O
transport	O
over	O
multiple	O
carriers	O
with	O
the	O
ability	O
to	O
reassign	O
an	O
interrupted	O
stream	O
,	O
and	O
by	O
load	O
balancing	O
over	O
available	O
assets	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
networking	B-Architecture
and	O
in	O
graph	O
theory	O
,	O
capillary	O
routing	B-Protocol
,	O
for	O
a	O
given	O
network	O
,	O
is	O
a	O
multi-path	O
solution	O
between	O
a	O
pair	O
of	O
source	O
and	O
destination	O
nodes	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Unlike	O
shortest-path	O
routing	B-Protocol
or	O
max-flow	O
routing	B-Protocol
,	O
for	O
any	O
given	O
network	O
topology	O
-	O
only	O
one	O
capillary	O
routing	B-Protocol
solution	O
exists	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Capillary	O
routing	B-Protocol
can	O
be	O
constructed	O
by	O
an	O
iterative	O
linear	B-Algorithm
programming	I-Algorithm
process	O
,	O
transforming	O
a	O
single-path	O
flow	O
into	O
a	O
capillary	O
route	O
.	O
</s>
