Energy and Time Efficient Route Discovery in Manet using Modified Aodv Routing Protocol

Abstract

In MANET usually nodes interact with each other either directly or by relaying nodes depending on whether nodes present are in vicinity of each other or not respectively. There are different routing protocols which work on the principle either of demand or not. AODV is a reactive routing protocol which performs on the strategy of shortest hop in its vicinity. Sometimes there is a route failure in network then some message is sent to the node if reply is not received with in time frame then for sure path is broken. So it is wastage of time and energy of all the participating nodes. Main reason behind the node failure is the sustaining energy of the participating nodes in the communication. Since nodes which have very less energy gets consumed when these try to send either data or reply to and from the nodes. Sometimes a node has minimum energy to send data. As soon as it sends data it is switched off and does not send delivery successful reply to the originating network. So in this case network thinks path is broken so message is again sent to another path. So here it again there is loss of energy of other communicating node and also wastage of time to send data to nodes. In this research work, an energy and time efficient approach will be proposed which will save time as well as energy of remaining nodes which further utilizes all the known linked paths simultaneously for transmitting data with the help of AODV routing protocol. Different simulation parameters are used to check the accuracy of approach. Simulation is performed on NS-3. There will be 50 to 100 nodes in the topology. Performance metrics like throughput, energy deviation, packet lost, packet delivery ratio and other will be used for performance checking with respect to standard AODV routing protocol. This research work provides the improvements to the existing algorithms of communication among network nodes in mobile ad-hoc networks (MANET) to obtain better results.