Bidirectional AOMDV Routing Protocol for Full-Duplex Ad-Hoc Networks

A mobile wireless ad-hoc network equipped with full-duplex nodes is considered. This allows formation of bidirectional routes, where every forward and reverse route between a source and destination pair completely overlaps. These completely-overlapped bidirectional route(s) can support efficient transmission of bidirectional flows between a pair of source and destination nodes. In this paper, we propose a novel routing protocol, called as bidirectional AOMDV (BAOMDV), that discovers multiple, link-disjoint, bidirectional routes in the network, in order to make efficient use of full-duplex nodes. This routing protocol overcomes the limitations of existing AOMDV based protocols in finding the bidirectional routes. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed BAOMDV routing protocol outperforms the current schemes in literature (AOMDV and optimized AOMDV) in medium and high mobility scenarios, in terms of packet delivery ratio and end-to-end delay.