approach was introduced in the process of flooding-based route discovery in DSR and
AODV protocols. We identify the" next-hop racing" phenomena due to the RRD approach
and propose a positional attribute based next-hop determination approach (PANDA) to
address this problem. Based on positional attributes such as the relative distance, estimated
link lifetime, transmission power consumption, an intermediate node will identify itself as …
Flooding technique is often used for route discovery in on-demand routing protocols in
mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) such as Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) and Ad hoc On-
demand Distance Vector (AODV) routing. In this paper we present a Positional Attribute
based Next-hop Determination Approach (PANDA) to improve the performance of flooding-
based route discovery in MANETs using positional attributes of the nodes. These attributes
may be geographical, power-aware, or based on any other quality of service (QoS) …