A Genetic-Algorithm-Based Optimized AODV Routing Protocol.

The Ad hoc On-demand Distance Vector (AODV) routing protocol is a very important distance vector routing protocol in Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANET). Due to the mobility of MANET, the performance of routing protocols in many scenarios is not ideal. Based on the consideration of the performance of intermediate nodes, this paper uses genetic algorithm to optimize the routing to find a more suitable route to improve the network performance. The simulation results show that GA-AODV has a significant improvement over AODV in average delay, packet received rate, and routing recovery frequency.