Impact of Varying Node Density and Pause Time in AODV

Unstable topology and varying node density has a bearing effect on route establishment and route maintenance of Reactive Routing Protocols of Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs). This paper makes an attempt to study the impact of varying node density on one of the most popular and widely accepted reactive routing protocol for MANETs called Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Routing Protocol. This study will give an insight about the robustness of AODV in highly dynamic environment.