A New AOMDV Lifetime Prolonging Routing Algorithm for Ad-Hoc Networks

Network lifetime is a key design metric in MANETs, it is considered as one of the most important parameters algorithms to be used in ad hoc networks. Each network node works completely independently and acts as a router for relaying communications. If some nodes die prematurely because of battery depletion, the network lifetime will be adversely affected, and the network will get disconnected. This article presents AOMDV-LP, a new AOMDV lifetime-prolonging routing algorithm for MANETs. This new algorithm helps to maximize the network lifetime by managing nodes energy, link cost and controlling the networks congestion. Simulations quantify the performance gains of the authors algorithm.