Abstract:

In Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET), the movements of nodes are liable to cause link failures, while the local repair in the classic Ad Hoc On-demand Distance Vector (AODV) routing algorithm is performed only after the link breaks, which has some limitations and may result in the cached data packet loss when the repair process fails or goes on too slowly. In order to solve this problem, an optimized AODV routing algorithm named ARB-AODV was proposed, which can avoid route breaks. In ARB-AODV algorithm, the link which seemed to break was predicted and the stability degrees of the nodes' neighbors were calculated. Then the node with the highest stability was added to the weak link to eliminate the edge effect of nodes and avoid route breaks. Experiments were conducted on NS-2 platform using Random Waypoint Mobility Model (RWM) and Constant Bit Rate (CBR) data. When the nodes moved at a speed higher than 10m/s, the packet delivery ratio of ARB-AODV algorithm maintained at 80% or even higher, the average end-to-end delay declined up to 40% and the overhead of normalized routing declined up to 15% compared with AODV. The simulation results show that ARB-AODV outperforms AODV, and it can effectively improve network performance.