A survey of energy efficient routing protocol in MANET

Despite of much research activity over the past decades on mobile ad hoc wireless network (MANET), there is an important challenging issue related to mobile hosts/nodes battery power. This is owing to the prevalent constraints to extend the energy of nodes so that it could work for longer time. Moreover, battery power is also not transferable from one node to another node. The survey classifies the energy aware routing protocols, their functionality, benefits, limitations and finally the analysis of energy efficient routing protocols. The paper aims to assist those ad hoc networks, researchers and application developers in selecting appropriate energy efficient routing protocols for their work.