A Study of Energy Efficient MANET Routing Protocols

Abstract

In Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANET) the contributing nodes have numerous jobs such as router, receiver and sender. Therefore here is a lot of energy consumed by the nodes for the ordinary working of the network since each node has several dissimilar roles. Also in MANET the nodes remain moving continually and this in twist consumes a lot of energy. Since battery capability of these nodes is limited it fails to fulfill the high requirement of energy. The shortage of energy makes the energy maintenance in MANET a significant concern. There is some research carried out on the energy consumption of MANET these days. Some of this research recommends load balancing, sleep mode, transmission power control, etc. We have surveyed so many types of traditional protocols of MANET and their variation which includes energy efficiency.

Keywords: MANET; Multipath Routing; Routing Protocols; Energy Efficiency; Network Life Time