Direction Oriented Forwarding with Power Adaption (DOF-PA) Protocol for MANETs

Abstract

Several routing protocols have already been proposed for Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANET). This paper suggests an approach to select minimum number of edge nodes for forwarding the data. In this paper, we introduce a Direction Oriented Forwarding with Power Adaption (DOF-PA) Protocol for MANET. It is based on Direction Oriented Forwarding Through Minimum number of Edge Nodes (DOF-MEN) Protocol, Energy Efficient Location Aided Routing (EELAR) Protocol and Zone Routing Protocol (ZRP). It reduces the control overhead. It selects one of its edge nodes as Next Hop (NH) for forwarding the data to the destination. The remaining nodes are not involved in forwarding. The node adjusts its transmitting power according to the movement of the edge node. Node mobility may lead to packet loss. It reduces the probability of packet loss by adapting the transmission power.