Subject: question for AODV

From: Yong Kang <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 10:52:22 -0800 (PST)

a basic question for AODV, pls correct me if I'm wrong

if wireless network come to practical, the routing traffic should be
less than 5~10% of the link capacity(it's 1~3% in internet).

the motivation of AODV is to save bandwidth consumed by routing protocol.
(I think all on-demand protocol does this).

So, why we try to save among the <10% at the cost of:
1. can't track all routers in the flat network(lose important network
   management info).
2. possible long response time when communicat to a silent host.

has these tradeoff been considered when designing the protocol?

thanks
yong