Energy Aware Path Selection based Efficient AODV for MANETs

In Mobile Adhoc Networks (MANETs) during the process of routing the consumption of energy remains a challenge as mobile nodes have limited battery. We propose method for increasing the lifetime of the network and minimizing the link breakages by choosing the paths for routing, with more available energy. In this paper we propose two schemes based on Adhoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV), a reactive routing protocol. In both these schemes, to reduce the control packets overhead, limited mobile nodes can be the part of the routing process. This limitation is based on the received signal strength. The energy efficient available path in terms of residual energy is selected either by the destination node or by intermediate node locally. The simulation results show that our proposed schemes results in the energy efficient routing as compared to traditional AODV.