DefinePK

Abstract

Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET) is an important technology that is widely used in many applications. Routing discovery and route maintenance are important issues in MANET. Broadcasting is used in a MANET to discover a route in on-demand routing protocols. Establishment and regular maintenance of a route represent the challenges issue. Therefore, nodes require to broadcast control packets among themselves. This situation leads to broadcast storm problem, which increases overhead of control packets and decreases the performance of the network. In this paper, the Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Victor (AODV) routing protocol is used for implementing the propose scheme, namely AODV–Packet Timing Information (PTI), to reduce the unnecessary control packets for discovery routing. In addition, the proposed AODV-PTI scheme reduced the network overhead. Network Simulation version 2.35 (NS2.35) was used to compare the proposed scheme with AODV routing protocol in terms end-to-end delay, average throughput, packet delivery ratio, and packet overhead ratio.