Abstract

Energy conservation is important for mobile ad hoc networks where devices are expected to work for longer periods of time without the need for charging their batteries. Therefore there is a need of an intelligent routing protocol that can minimize overhead and ensure the use of minimum energy routes. In Progressive Energy Efficient Routing, energy efficient shortest paths are selected with minimum energy consumption. Here due to the single path routing, there occur end-to-end delay, routing overhead and packet loss. Therefore to overcome these issues, PEER can be extended for multipath routing. Link-stability metrics and energy aware metrics can be applied for path selection. By this method, stable links are selected. In this study, energy efficient routing is done with maximum life time. The proposed Link-Stability and Energy Aware Multipath Routing gives good performance results in terms of packet delivery ratio, packet drop, energy consumption and delay compared with Progressive Energy Efficient Routing.

Keywords:

Energy aware, link-stability, mobile ad hoc network, multipath routing,

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