ACRR: Ad Hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Routing with Controlled Route Requests

Reactive routing protocols like Ad-hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Routing (AODV) and Dynamic Source Routing in Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks (DSR) which are used in Mobile and Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) work by flooding the network with control packets. There is generally a limit on the number of these packets that can be generated or forwarded. But a malicious node can disregard this limit and flood the network with fake control packets. These packets hog the limited bandwidth and processing power of genuine nodes in the network while being forwarded. Due to this, genuine route requests suffer and many routes either do not get a chance to materialize or they end up being longer than otherwise. In this paper we propose a non cryptographic solution to the above problem and prove its efficiency by means of simulation.