DSR Route Discovery
n Node broadcasts route request message to all hosts within
transmission range
n route requests carry route record (sequence of hosts visited
so far) and unique request id
n each node maintains list of “recently seen” route request
messages
n upon reception of route request by a node:
check whether request is a duplicate and discard
check whether node is in route record and discard
if node is intended target, route record is complete, reply with
route reply
otherwise, append node to route record and re-broadcast