A scheme based on mobility for on-demand route protocol in ad hoc networks

Abstract

Broadcasting, which usually incurs serious problems by flooding, is a common operation in MANET (mobile Ad hoc networks), especially in on-demand route protocol. In order to relieve such limitations, in this paper, we propose an improvement over the former blind flooding approach by using a scheme based on the mobility of nodes (MON). In MON scheme, we categorize mobile hosts into active nodes and inactive nodes according to their relative high or low mobility. Inactive nodes forward packets for other nodes while active nodes do not. In simulation, we approve the advantages of our approach in most cases by comparing it with AODV in terms of several metrics. Finally, the advantages and disadvantages of MON are concretely analyzed in theory.