Performance of Dominating Sets in AODV Routing Protocol for MANETs

A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a wireless network that does not rely on any fixed infrastructure (i. e., routing facilities, such as wired networks and access points), and whose nodes must coordinate among themselves to determine connectivity and routing. The broadcast can target a portion of the network (e. g. gathering neighborhood information), or the entire network (e. g., discovering routes on demand). Broadcasting of signaling and data in MANETs raise redundant transmission of control packets to overcome these problems we applied dominating set approach to existing routing protocols. The focus of this paper is to evaluate the performance of dominating sets in ad-hoc on-demand distance vector routing algorithm (AODV) that improve broadcasting, end-to-end delay, network load, packet latency, and also maintains secure packet transmission. The implementation is done using GloMoSim -2.03 simulator.