A Highly Effective and Efficient Route Discovery & Maintenance in DSR

Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) is collection of multi-hop wireless mobile nodes that communicate with each other without centralized control or established infrastructure. The wireless links in this network are highly error prone and can go down frequently due to mobility of nodes, interference and less infrastructure. Therefore, routing in MANET is a critical task due to highly dynamic environment. Many protocols were given for solving the problem of routing in MANET e.g., DSR, AODV, DSDV etc. This paper presents a protocol which eliminates the problem which occur in the DSR protocol like the inconsistency occur due to routing information in the route cache of stale node. The proposed protocol also reduces the packet dropped, packet delay time and the message overhead in the network as compared to DSR by utilizing effective path discovery and path maintenance procedure.