Mobile ad hoc networks pose various kinds of security problems, caused by their nature of collaborative and open systems and by limited availability of resources. In our work we look at AODV in detail, study and analyses various attacks that can be possible on it. Then we look into some existing mechanism for securing AODV protocol. Our proposed work is an extension to Adaptive-SAODV of the secure AODV protocol extension, which includes tuning strategies aimed at improving its performance. In A-SAODV an intermediate node makes an adaptive reply decision for an incoming request that helps to balance its load that is over-burdened by signing and verification task of incoming messages. Namely, we propose a modification to adaptive mechanism that tunes SAODV behavior. In our paper we have proposed an extension to Adaptive-SAODV of the secure AODV protocol extension, which includes further filtering strategies aimed at further improving its network performance. We have analyzed the how our proposed algorithm can help in further improvement of performance in adaptive SAODV and also compared its performance with existing mechanisms using simulation
