ABSTRACT

Ad hoc wireless networks consists of mobile terminals communicating directly with other mobile terminals without any pre existing infrastructure. In Ad hoc network each mobile terminal acts as a router to enable multi hop communication. Reactive routing protocols are used to discover routes when a mobile terminal wants to establish communication link with another terminal in the network. AODV and DSR are popular reactive protocol extensively studied. In this paper we investigate the efficiency of AODV routing protocol in a bandwidth constrained network by toggling the destination only flag in the AODV header. The throughput is studied and evaluated.