Abstract

The formation of the path tends to be the first step in the network before data transfer can begin. In Mobile ad hoc\nnetworks, various protocols such as AODV, DSR etc. lays out the rules of creating the path by first broadcasting the route\nrequest messages in the network, then the phase of route reply and finally the creation of path. However, the broadcasting of\nthe route request messages generally requires many more messages to be exchanged among the nodes, sometimes also\nreferred to as flooding of the route request messages. In this study the work has been done on saving the energy of the nodes\nby reducing the number of the route request messages being flooded in the network and optimizing the path selection\nprocedure in MANETS. The performance of the network has been analyzed on the basis of throughput, routing overhead and\nenergy consumption.