OPTIMIZATION OF REVERSE-AODV ON EMERGENCY BROADCAST SIMULATION.

In addition to the use of wire as a delivery media, currently there is an alternative delivery media in the form of wireless. This alternative delivery media is selected due to its easy installation and its cost-efficient infrastructure. MANET is a part of wireless network. It is used for many purposes including the needs for military, disaster recovery, and emergency response. Therefore, an appropriate and reliable routing protocol is required. Selection of a proper routing protocol in emergency broadcast simulation is needed, so that data transmission delivered to each node is well received. Moreover, AODV routing protocol is very suitable for the simulation. It is different from AODV; Reverse-AODV is the development of modified AODV. The use of RAODV routing protocol has been found to be unsatisfactory in emergency broadcast simulation. The number of packet loss is very high and the number of packet received by sample nodes used for research is very low. Optimization is required on this routing protocol, so that the performance of RAODV can be maximized in emergency broadcast simulation.