LS-AODV: An Energy Balancing Routing Algorithm For Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Battery-powered computing solutions have grown in importance and utility across a wide range of applications in the technology industry, including both consumer and industrial uses. Devices that are not attached to a stable and constant power source must ensure that all power consumption is minimized while necessary computation and communications are performed. WiFi networking is ubiquitous in modern devices, and thus the power consumption necessary to transmit data is of utmost concern for these battery powered devices. The Ad hoc OnDemand Distance Vector (AODV) routing algorithm is a widely adopted and adapted routing system for path finding in wireless networks. AODV's original implementation did not include power consumption as a consideration for route determinations. The Energy Aware AODV (EA-AODV) algorithm was an attempt to account for energy conservation by varying broadcast power and choosing paths with distance between nodes as a consideration in routing. Lightning Strike AODV (LS-AODV) described in this paper is a proposed routing algorithm that further accounts for energy consumption in wireless networking by balancing energy in a network. Quality of service is maintained while energy levels are increased through networks using the LS-AODV algorithm.