Abstract

The main aim of this study is to propose an Energy Aware Clustering Aggregate Node Rotation with Sink Relocation (EAC-ASR) protocol for improving the energy efficiency of the Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (MANET). MANET has gained more popularity and deployed for numerous applications, as a result of significant improvement in the technological development, diverse sensing and mobility capabilities. Reduction in the energy consumption is the most important challenge in the MANET, to improve the communication efficiency at the individual nodes. The EAC-ASR protocol is proposed in this study to achieve reduction in the energy consumption of the MANET. The energy aware clustering process is done to improve the access control mechanism of the network. Aggregation of data from the nodes is performed using the data collection algorithm. Rotation of the mobile nodes and relocation of the sink are performed, to balance the energy consumption in the network, during the data transmission process. The simulation results show that the proposed EAC-ASR protocol reduces the energy consumption and increases the lifetime of the MANET.

Keywords:

Cluster head, data aggregation, Energy Aware Clustering Aggregate Node Rotation with Sink Relocation (EAC-ASR) protocol, energy efficiency, Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET), mobile node rotation, network lifetime,

References

1. Ayyaswamy, K. and S. Rengaramanujam, 2011a. ETUS: An enhanced triple umpiring system for security and performance improvement of mobile ad hoc networks. Int. J. Netw. Manage., 21(5): 341-359.
   CrossRef    
2. Ayyaswamy, K. and S. Rengaramanujam, 2011b. ETUS: Enhanced triple umpiring system for security and robustness of wireless mobile ad hoc networks. Int. J. Commun. Netw. Distrib. Syst., 7(1/2): 153-187.
   CrossRef    
3. Barati, M., K. Atefi, F. Khosravi and Y.A. Daftari, 2012. Performance evaluation of energy consumption for AODV and DSR routing protocols in MANET. Proceeding of the International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICCIS, 2012), pp: 636-642.
   CrossRef    
4. Basurra, S.S., M. De Vos, J. Padget, Y. Ji, T. Lewis and S. Armour, 2015. Energy efficient zone based routing protocol for MANETs. Ad Hoc Netw., 25: 16-37.
   
5. Costagliola, N., P.G. López, F. Oliviero and S.P. Romano, 2012. Energy-and delay-efficient routing in mobile ad hoc networks. Mobile Netw. Appl., 17(2): 281-297.
   CrossRef    
6. De Rango, F., F. Guerriero and P. Fazio, 2012. Link-stability and energy aware routing protocol in distributed wireless networks. IEEE T. Parall. Distr., 23(4): 713-726.
   CrossRef    
7. Jain, H.R. and S.K. Sharma, 2014. Improved energy efficient secure multipath AODV routing protocol for MANET. Proceeding of the International Conference on Advances in Engineering and Technology Research (ICAETR, 2014), pp: 1-9.
   CrossRef    
8. Loutfi, A., M. Elkoutbi, J. BenOthman and A. Kobbane, 2014. An energy aware algorithm for OLSR clustering. Ann. Telecommun., 69(3-4): 201-207.
   CrossRef    
9. Maleki, M., V. Hakami and M. Dehghan, 2014. A reinforcement learning-based Bi-objective routing algorithm for energy harvesting mobile ad-hoc networks. Proceeding of the 7th International Symposium on Telecommunications (IST, 2014), pp: 1082-1087.
   CrossRef    
10. Preethi, S. and B. Ramachandran, 2011. Energy efficient routing protocols for mobile AdHoc networks. Proceeding of the International Conference on Emerging Trends in Networks and Computer Communications (ETNCC, 2011), pp: 136-141.
    CrossRef    
11. Ramesh, V., K.S. Supriya and P. Subbaiah, 2014. Design of novel energy conservative preemptive dynamic source routing for MANET. Proceeding of the International Conference on Computing, Communication and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT, 2014), pp: 1-7.
    CrossRef    
12. Ramrekha, T.A., V.N. Talooki, J. Rodriguez and C. Politis, 2012. Energy efficient and scalable routing protocol for extreme emergency ad hoc communications. Mobile Netw. Appl., 17(2): 312-324.
    CrossRef    
13. Sarkar, S. and R. Datta, 2012. A trust based protocol for energy-efficient routing in self-organized MANETs. Proceeding of the Annual IEEE India Conference (INDICON), pp: 1084-1089.
    CrossRef    
14. Simaremare, H., A. Syarif, A. Abouaissa, R. Sari and P. Lorenz, 2012. Energy consumption analysis of modified AODV routing protocol under random waypoint and reference point group mobility models. Proceeding of the International Conference on Advanced Computer Science and Information Systems (ICACSIS, 2012), pp: 47-51.
    
15. Srinivasan, P. and P. Kamalakkannan, 2012. REAQ-AODV: Route stability and energy aware QoS routing in mobile Ad Hoc networks. Proceeding of the 4th International Conference on Advanced Computing (ICoAC, 2012), pp: 1-5.
    
16. Suresh, H.N., G. Varaprasad and G. Jayanthi, 2014. Designing energy routing protocol with power consumption optimization in MANET. IEEE T. Emerg. Topics Comput., 2(2): 192-197.
    CrossRef    
17. Yitayal, E., J.M. Pierson and D. Ejigu, 2014. A Balanced Battery Usage Routing Protocol to Maximize Network Lifetime of MANET Based on AODV. In: Balandin, S. et al. (Eds.), NEW2AN/ruSmart, 2014. LNCS 8638, Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, pp: 266-279.
    CrossRef    

Competing interests

The authors have no competing interests.

Open Access Policy

This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.

Copyright

The authors have no competing interests.