AN INVESTIGATION ON ENERGY EFFICIENT ROUTING PROTOCOLS FOR MANET IN VARIOUS MOBILITY MODELS

Abstract

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) represent distributed systems that consist of wireless mobile nodes that can freely organize it into temporary ad hoc network topologies. A mobile ad hoc network is a collection of nodes that is connected through a wireless medium forming dynamic topologies. If a node is used frequently for transmission or overhearing of data packets, more energy is consumed by that node and after certain amount of time the energy level may not be sufficient for data transmission resulting in link failure. MANET’s are generally battery-powered devices; the critical aspect is to reduce the energy  consumption of nodes, so that the network lifetime can be extended. In mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), nodes are mobile and have limited energy resource that can quickly deplete due to multi-hop routing activities, which may gradually lead to an un-operational network.  In the past decade, the hunt for a reliable and energy-efficient MANETs routing protocol has been extensively researched. This paper proposes the Ant Colony Energy Efficient Routing Protocols  for MANET routing transformation. Other than that the various energy efficient routing protocols are also analyzed in this paper. This paper produces the proper investigation for energy efficient routing protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Network.