Performance analysis of a reliable AODV routing protocol in MANETs

Abstract

Wireless communication is becoming prominent than ever before. The Ad Hoc Network (a special case of wireless networks) is an infrastructure less network where the nodes (having equal status or designation) communicate directly to one another and those having different status communicate via some intermediate nodes [1], thus each of the node in the network forwards its packet for the peer nodes and the end to end flow traverses many of the hops of the wireless links from the source to the destination.