In mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), due to frequent changes in topology there exist more
link breakages which lead to high rate of path failures and route discoveries, which cause an
increased routing control overhead. Thus, it is necessary to reduce the overhead of route discovery in
the design of routing protocols for MANETs. In a route discovery, broadcasting may be an
elementary and effective data dissemination mechanism, wherever a mobile node blindly
rebroadcasts the first received route request packets unless it has a route to the destination, and
therefore it causes the broadcast storm problem. This paper proposes an optimistic approach OpSOA
to mitigate the broadcasting storm problem and to scale back the communication overheads of
routing protocols by forming sectors within the network and finding the route to destination by two
sectors at a time. The simulation result shows that the proposed mechanism substantially reduces
route requests. Since the proposed protocol searches for the destination sector wise thereby reducing
network wide broadcast of routing requests, traffic, collision and contention. There by there can be
an increase in the packet delivery ratio and decrease in the average end-to-end delay
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Figure 2. Pseudocode for OpSOA.
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By this we will reduce the number of network wide RREQ messages initiated by the source
node. The possibility of having broadcast storms can be reduced and the limited resources such as
channel resources and device resources in MANETs can be preserved. By reducing the control traffic,
more data traffic can be transmitted over the network.
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