Effect of physical and virtual carrier sensing on the AODV routing protocol in noisy MANETs

In cellular consumer devices today, one of the limiting factors behind efficiency is that of battery life. The challenge facing cellular consumer device designers is that the discovery phase of the routing process when attempting to establish a mobile ad hoc network tends to put the highest strain on the battery of the device. Such routing algorithms tend to be affected by carrier sensing which has lead to increasing packet loss within the network environment. This paper is concerned with studying the performance of Ad hoc On demand Distance Vector (AODV) based on physical and virtual carrier sensing as well as the effect of those carriers on the route discovery.