MANETs (Mobile Ad Hoc Networks) are wireless networks with characteristics such as self organizing or autonomous, multi-hop and resource constrained. These resource constraints includes limited power, bandwidth etc. which in turn increases the difficulty in MANETs routing. The problem space includes route break, control overhead, limited energy etc. Ad-hoc On Demand Distance Vector (AODV) is the most popular routing protocol for MANETs. In this paper, we propose an enhanced version of AODV known as High performance AODV (HP-AODV) which provides better route maintenance by reducing control overhead. The proposed protocol is providing alternate routes by an extra broadcast in case of route failure. These alternate routes are reducing number of control packet effectively. We have done simulation for different Pause time and different number of sources to get the results. Simulation results compared with AODV protocol indicate that HP-AODV is performing better in terms of Normalized Routing Load (NRL).

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