Abstract: Mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a centerless packet radio network without the use of any fixed infrastructure. Tremendous attentions have been received because of capabilities of self configuration and self maintenance especially in public safe and disaster recovery situations. Attenuation and interference caused by node mobility and wireless channels sharing, however, weaken the stability of communication links, which makes routing protocol design present nontrivial challenges such as broadcast storm, stale route and delay. The negative impact of wireless routes discontinuity on pervasive communication is alleviated by an effective Self Recovery Routing Game (SRRG) proposed in this study for source-initiated routing protocols by restricting route require zone on intermediate forward nodes according to the solution of optimal exploring equations. The purpose of SRRG is to reduce overhead during route maintenance as well as allowing continuous packet forwarding for fault resilience. NS2 based simulating results indicate that SRRG based on AODV presented in this study achieves much notable improvement for performance of MANET in packet successful delivery rate and total overhead, what is more, obtains much lower average end-to-end delay susceptibility on network capacity and node mobile state simultaneously to improve robustness and survivability.