Survey on MANET Routing Protocol and Multipath Extension in AODV

The innovative ideas to overcome the problems in case of routing in a wireless platform are key points that can potentially raise the throughput of the network in different scenarios. The protocols introduced by IEEE 802.11s draft are divided into Proactive, Reactive or Hybrid Mesh categories. One key popular protocol is called ad-hoc On Demand Vector (AODV) [51] protocol which is based on on-demand path selection in which the tree size is increasing in a Proactive manner. As competent, AOMDV [52] protocol focuses on Ad-hoc on demand Multi-Path Distance Vector routing challenging AODV in performance. In this synopsis, we propose to enhance the Ad hoc On-demand Multipath Distance Vector (AODV) routing protocol for MANETs to a delay-aware multi-path protocol. The focus area is to improve the QoS in MANETs by creating a protocol, which considers delay requests of real-time multimedia applications (voice and video) in making routing decisions. For this we will use NS-2 (Network Simulator-2) as test bed.