
4-6 Industrial Communication Systems
4.3.2 Reactive Routing Protocols
Reactive or on-demand* routing protocols were designed to reduce the overhead of the proactive routing
protocols; they maintain information on active routes only. When one node wants to communicate with
another node, one route to the destination is demanded. Although network resources such as energy and
bandwidth are used more eciently than in the proactive protocols, the delay in the routing discovery
procedure increases. e route discovery procedure is usually made by ooding a route request packet
through the network. If a node with a route to the destination (or the ...