--- a/src/aodv/model/aodv-routing-protocol.cc	Sun Dec 18 07:10:25 2016 -0800
+++ a/src/aodv/model/aodv-routing-protocol.cc	Sun Dec 18 14:24:22 2016 -0800
@@ -1052,8 +1052,10 @@ 
     }
   else
     {
-      // Binary exponential backoff
-      retry = std::pow<uint16_t> (2, rt.GetRreqCnt () - 1) * m_netTraversalTime;
+      NS_ASSERT_MSG (rt.GetRreqCnt () > 0, "Unexpected value for GetRreqCount ()");
+      uint16_t backoffFactor = rt.GetRreqCnt () - 1;
+      NS_LOG_LOGIC ("Applying binary exponential backoff factor " << backoffFactor);
+      retry = m_netTraversalTime * (1 << backoffFactor);
     }
   m_addressReqTimer[dst].Schedule (retry);
   NS_LOG_LOGIC ("Scheduled RREQ retry in " << retry.GetSeconds () << " seconds");