AODV is a combination of both DSR and DSDV protocols. It has the basic route-discovery and route-maintenance of DSR and uses the hop-by-hop routing, sequence numbers and beacons of DSDV. The node that wants to know a route to a given destination generates a ROUTE REQUEST. The route request is forwarded by intermediate nodes that also creates a reverse route for itself from the destination. When the request reaches a node with route to destination it generates a ROUTE REPLY containing the number of hops requires to reach destination. All nodes that participates in forwarding this reply to the source node creates a forward route to destination. This state created from each node from source to destination is a hop-by-hop state and not the entire route as is done in source routing. See /aodv and /tcl/lib/ns-lib.tcl for implementational details of aodv.