Investigating the performance of energy efficient routing protocol for MANET under pareto traffic

Abstract

Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) is a multi-hop, infrastructureless wireless network with limited bandwidth and battery power. The investigation of energy efficient protocols under Pareto traffic is being carried out in this paper. The routing protocols taken for analysis are ECG_AODV [1, 2], ECNC_AODV [3], EBG_AODV [4, 5] and Energy plus Node Cache plus Gossip (E+NC+G) and compare it with AODV. The behavior of all these algorithms under CBR traffic is already studied in [6]. Here we have focused on Stochastic (Pareto) traffic source. Based on the simulation results, we observed that there is reduction in energy and overhead up to 10–30% with 2–12% deprivation in the delivery ratio for all protocol as compared to AODV.