Exploiting neighboring relationship for enhancement of AODV in hybrid wireless mesh network

Most of the proposed works in Routing protocol for hybrid wireless mesh networks are based on AODV. To be more effective in hybrid wireless mesh networks, the enhancement of AODV is very much important. In this paper, we propose a novel mechanism for route discovery and route repairing by exploiting local connectivity. In this approach, any neighbor node of the destination node can provide a route to the destination even if neighbor node does not have route entry about that destination in routing table. Neighboring node will reply to the route query, instead of forwarding it. Simulation results show that the proposed approach outperforms the standard AODV under routing overhead, end to end delay, throughput and packet delivery ratio in hybrid Wireless mesh networks.