EEAODR: An energy‐efficient ad hoc on‐demand routing protocol for mobile ad hoc networks

Abstract

SUMMARYMobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are characterized by random, multi-hop topologies that do not have a centralized coordinating entity or a fixed infrastructure that may change rapidly over time. In addition, mobile nodes operate with portable and finite power sources. In this work, we propose an energy-efficient routing protocol for MANETs to minimize energy consumption and increase the network's consistency. Traditional works mainly focused on the shortest path-based schemes to minimize energy, which might result into network failure because some nodes might exhaust fast as they are used repetitively, while some other nodes might not be used at all. This can lead to energy imbalance and to network life reduction. We propose an energy-efficient ad hoc on-demand routing protocol that balances energy load among nodes so that a minimum energy level is maintained among nodes and the network life increases. We focused on increasing the network longevity by distributing energy consumption in the network. We also compared the simulation results with a popular existing on-demand routing protocol in this area, AODV, to establish the superiority of our approach.

A simple, least-time, and energy-efficient routing protocol with one-level data aggregation for wireless sensor networks

“…There exist other categories of protocols in the literature (Al- Karaki and Kamal, 2004;Akkaya and Younis, 2005), some of which include rumor routing (Braginsky and Estrin, 2002), minimum cost forwarding (MCF) (Ye et al, 2001), gradient-based routing (GBR) (Schurgers and Srivastava, 2001), information driven sensor querying (IDSQ) (Chu et al, 2002), energy-aware routing (Shah and Rabaey, 2002), COUGAR (Yao and Gehrke, 2002), ACQUIRE (Sadagopan et al, 2003). Apart from these protocols there are protocols designed for energy-efficient routing such as REEP (Zabin et al, 2008), EEAODR (Dhurandher et al, 2009c) and SPAN (Chen et al, 2002). Some of the other works on energy-efficient routing can be found in papers such as (Ganesan et al, 2001;Lindsey and Raghavendra, 2002;Rahul and Rabaey, 2002;Li and Halpern, 2001;Bandyopadhyay and Coyle, 2003;Dhurandher et al, 2009a,b,c;Misra et al, 2008).…”

Fuzzy-controlled cache management (FCM) in Experience-based Energy-efficient Routing Protocol in ad hoc networks

“…Hence, they suffer from extremely huge storage overhead because they store information about both active and inactive routes. Reactive or on demand routing protocols are designed to reduce this overhead [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7]. Different cache replacement procedures that can be used with EXERP [8], are Least Recently Used (LRU), Least Frequently Used (LFU) and Maximum Record Size (MRS) [8].…”

LP-ESAR: Lifetime prediction based energy saving routing algorithm for MANET

“…However, such protocols does not give network administrators the required flexibility to use one single protocol and configure it to optimize any one of the routing goals mentioned. Some routing protocols [19,20] have been proposed where both the least delay and energy efficient routing have been taken into account. In these routing protocols, the routing selection is formulated as a bi-criteria decision making problem.…”