Mobility based energy aware multipath disjoint routing protocol for mobile ad hoc networks

Abstract

Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) are foundation-free networks driven by battery-constrained nodes. This battery limit capacity in MANETs makes it mandate to consider energy awareness as a feature in protocol design. Thus, conserve the node's energy and finding a stable path is the primary concern. Due to the node’s mobility and energy consumption, a path becomes unstable which results in frequent link failure, affects the overall performance. Link failure can be overcome by predicting the node's mobility and preserving its energy. As a result, MEAMDRP (Mobility Based Energy Aware Multipath Disjoint Routing Protocol) has been proposed in this article as a node disjoint multipath routing protocol; which predicts the node's mobility to find the stable path. The proposed protocol is simulated in NS-2.35 to conduct the quantitative and qualitative analysis. The comparison shows that MEAMDRP intensifies the overall performance of the network with regard to the energy consumed, packet delivery ratio, and throughput, etc., Results obtained are exhilarating.