STUDY OF SECURITY ENHANCEMENT IN AODV ROUTING PROTOCOL IN AD HOC NETWORKS

Ad hoc network is a dynamically formed network by collection of movable nodes with changing topology, due to nodes mobility and without having centralized administration. Nodes communicate by exchanging data with another node, establishing multi hop network. This type of communication needs vigilant design of routing protocols to satisfy various Quality of Service (QoS) parameters. There is a need to satisfy request of finding a route that utilizes sufficient available resources to meet the QoS constraints in order to achieve low cost or most stable route in real time and military applications. The study of Ad hoc On Demand Distance Vector (AODV) routing protocol has been presented along with security enhancement to AODV routing protocols.