Routing Protocol in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks based on Energy Consumption

Abstract

Due to the network’s resource limitations and its dynamic nature, routing in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) is one of the most difficult jobs. Ad hoc infrastructure and node mobility add to the network’s complexity and instability. Finding the desired path from source to destination using routing techniques becomes even hazier due to limited radio range communication and dynamic topology. Numerous studies offer a wide range of techniques for transferring data from one place to another. In this paper, we have taken the energy of the nodes and the distance between the nodes as key components in deciding whether the route established with these components is appropriate or not. We are using the ad hoc on-demand multipath distance vector (AOMDV) protocol which is considered one of the most effective reactive routing techniques to deal with the unpredictability of the routing path in MANETs. Along with that, we propose a genetic algorithm-based new protocol that will provide the most energy-efficient path by considering the least distance between nodes with the help of mutation and crossover. Lastly, the proposed protocol results are compared with existing routing protocols like AOMDV and DSR. We have used routing overhead, end-to-end delay, throughput, energy consumption, and packet delivery ratio as key metrics for the performance evaluation of our proposed model.