An Improvement of the Route Discovery Process in AODV for Ad Hoc Network

Ad hoc networks are composed of a set of mobile and wireless nodes. They have several characteristics such as being self-organized, dynamically changing topology and multi-hop connectivity. Ad-Hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Routing (AODV) is one of the most widely researched on-demand ad hoc routing protocols. An improvement of the route discovery process in AODV (IMAODV) is proposed to decrease the delay and the routing overload in this paper. The performance of IMAODV is compared with AODV in terms of routing load and average end-to-end delay. The simulation results show that IMAODV has less the average end-to-end delay and the routing load than AODV in the network.