Load Balancing Route Discovery Method Based on AODV

Abstract

In the mobile ad-hoc network, nodes communicate with each other by using multi-hop method without any base station. In order for a source mobile node to send its data to a destination node through other intermediate nodes, mobile ad-hoc routing protocol is required. AODV is the representative routing protocol for mobile ad-hoc network. Fair route relaying load is also important as no one particular mobile node should be unfairly burdened to support many routes and to perform many packet relaying functions. This is an issue about fairness, and even route relaying load can alleviate the possibility of network congestion in ad-hoc network. We propose a LB (load balancing) route discovery method based on AODV (ad-hoc on-demand distance vector routing). As results, we found that longevity of network with our proposed method was increased 25.3731% longer than that of AODV for 3.7 neighbors' average degree.