Novel Composite Approach to Reduce Broadcast Storm Problem

Abstract

Broadcasting is the fundamental operation in mobile ad hoc network (MANET). Broadcasting is a side effect of flooding where each mobile nodes in the network can transmit the redundant packets to its neighboring nodes which are in the same transmission range. When mobile nodes are increased then network become dense and it leads to the problems such as redundant rebroadcast, contention and collision. These prone the high protocol overhead and intrusion with existing data traffic . Many MANET protocols such as Ad hoc On demand distance vector (AODV) and Dynamic Source Routing (DSR), Zone Routing Protocol (ZRP), Location Aided Routing (LAR) rely on broadcasting during route discovery mechanism which causes the broadcast storm problem. The main focus of this paper to understand AODV and DSR protocols and its side effect of broadcasting and propose an algorithm to reduce the broadcast storm problem.