Traffic-Aware and Low-Overhead Routing Protocol for MANETs

In this paper, a new routing protocol, called Traffic-Aware and Low-Overhead Routing Protocol (TALORP) is proposed. The TALORP protocol, which is an enhancements of the Low-Overhead Routing Protocol (LORP), uses backup routes to mitigate the flooding problem that is frequently used to repair link failures. It also takes into account the traffic flows on different paths toward the destination in order to select the shortest and the least-congested path. The simulation results demonstrated that TALORP achieves better performance compared to LORP under all traffic conditions in terms of packet delivery ratio and end-to-end delay but at the cost of higher routing overhead.