A New Automatic Route Shortening for DSR

We suggest an enhanced automatic route shortening method for dynamic source routing (DSR) protocol. DSR is a request / response based protocol which has low routing overhead owing to node movement. The original automatic route shortening is performed on the only nodes that belong to the source route of packets. On the contrary, our suggested method allows all neighbor nodes hearing the packet to participate in automatic route shortening. It makes all possible route shortenings be performed. So we maintain maximal short routes of ongoing data connections. Simulation results show that our method pays small extra overhead for ARS, but increases the ratio of packet transmissions and ARS' are performed from 2 to 5 times as much as original ARS.