A performance comparison of smart probabilistic broadcasting of ad hoc distance vector (AODV).
Muneer Bani Yassein, Mustafa Bani Khalaf, Ahmed Y. Al-Dubai · Edinburgh Napier Research Repository (Edinburgh Napier University) · 2010
Broadcast is a common operation used in Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) for many services, such as, routdiscovery and sending an information messages. The direct method to perform broadcast is simple flooding, which itcan dramatically affect the performance of MANET. Recently, a probabilistic approach to flooding has beenproposed as one of most important suggested solutions to solve the broadcast storm problem, which leads to thecollision, contention and duplicated messages. This paper proposed new probabilistic method to improve theperformance of existing on-demand routing protocol by reduced the RREQ overhead during rout discoveryoperation. The simulation results show that the combination of AODV and a suitable probabilistic rout discoverycan reduce the average end- to- end delay as well as overhead and still achieving low normalized routing load,comparing with AODV which used fixed probability and blind flooding