A Survey on Energy Efficient Routing Protocols in Mobile Ad hoc Network

Abstract

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are highly dynamic in nature. They are used in various critical and urgent situations such as in a conference rooms, virtual lecture rooms, and communication in case of disaster. They do not have a fixed infrastructure and nodes have limited power and bandwidth. Energy aware routing protocols are required for routing packets and choosing an optimal path in terms of energy and bandwidth. This paper presents a literature survey of such energy aware routing protocols. These protocols are modified from existing routing protocols.

A Comprehensive Classification of MANETs Routing Protocols

“…As MANET lack of fixed infrastructure and mobiles nodes in MANET are battery driven, in such environment energy efficiency is an important consideration to increase the network [42] .Since the nodes in MANETs are mobile, the routing and power management become critical issue [43] .Several power aware routing schemes have been proposed for MANETs networks Fig(12). The main objective of power aware routing scheme is to minimize the power consumption and maximize the network lifetime.…”

“…This protocol tends to increase the throughput of the network as compared to other power aware routing protocols .One of the disadvantages of PAMAS protocol is broadcasting problem. In this protocol, a broadcast may collide with another transmission at some receiver [42].…”