Throughput Maximization in MANET’s using AODV Routing Protocol with coding Opportunity Discovery

MANET (Mobile Ad hoc Network) is a collection of nodes interconnected without a fixed infrastructure. For this reason the mobile nodes are resource constraint in terms of energy, storage capacity and processing power. To improve network throughput in MANET routing protocols such as AODV (Ad hoc OnDemand Distance Vector) is proved to be suitable. This is because the AODV protocol is an on-demand routing protocol as it won’t establish a route unless it is really required by the network nodes [1]. Research in the area of effective routing has attracted more attention in the industry. XOR coding scheme can improve network throughput. However, the AODV protocol does not support execution of XOR coding scheme. As XOR coding can improve the throughput in wireless sensor network. Especially it improves communication with unicast traffic. In this paper, the XOR coding scheme is used to implement coding opportunity discovery that improves network throughput. The AODV protocol is improved with coding opportunity discovery. The experiments are made using NS2 simulation and the empirical results reveal that the proposed scheme improves network throughput when it is compared with AODV. KeywordsMANET