Efficient routing protocol for MANET

Abstract

Nodes in MANET are mobile with limited capacities. The nodes are energy constraint in MANET which limits the routing capability of nodes and network lifetime. Therefore to improve performance of MANET, special routing algorithms which can establish energy efficient path to route packets from source to destinations are needed. If the selected route is energy efficient, it can maximize the throughput, minimize delay and can also increase network lifetime. But establishing energy efficient route between source and destination is itself difficult task. In this paper, an effort has been done to increase network lifetime and throughput by proposing a new energy efficient protocol. This protocol provides energy efficient route by considering residual energy of intermediate nodes. This paper shows that proposed protocol improves network lifetime as well as throughput and reduces delay compared to AODV.