A novel improved neighbor discovery method for an Intelligent-AODV in Mobile Ad hoc Networks

Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) have opened a new window for fresh ideas and thoughts to be converted to reality and to assist in making better use of mobile communication implemented with mobility models. For instance, Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs), a subset of MANETs, is used in vehicular connectivity such as Car-to-Car and Car-to-Internet and Infrastructure. Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV) is one of the ad hoc routing protocols utilized in MANET and VANET. Ad hoc routing protocols are categorized into Table-driven and On-demand. On-Demand routing protocols find their destinations based on the process of flooding a request to neighbors searching for their destinations. Neighbors of nodes are detected based on the neighbor discovery method, which periodically broadcasts HELLO messages to detect available neighbors at time. Generating routing packets and neighbor discovery messages produce high overhead in the On-Demand routing protocol, such as AODV. In order to overcome such issues, a novel scheme in Ad hoc networks based on Intelligent-AODV (I - AODV) is proposed. This scheme functions to exploit neighbor discovery and reduce the overhead of neighbor discovery processes.