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neighbors. ose nodes subsequently relay that message to their active
neighbors and so on. is process continues until all active source
nodes are notified. It terminates because AODV maintains only loop-
free routes and there are only a finite number of nodes in the ad hoc
network.
When the source node receives the broken link if the source still
requires restarting of the discovery process of finding the route to
destination, it can start. To determine whether a route is still needed,
a node may check whether the route has been used recently as well as
inspect upper level protocol control blocks to see whether connections
remain open using the indicated destination. If the source node or
any other node along ...