An Approach to Improve Lifetime of MANET via Power Aware Routing Protocol and Genetic Algorithm

Mobile Adhoc Networking [MANET] are in use in approximately every known area now a days. The nodes of the Mobile Adhoc Networking MANETS are battery power operated. The battery goes down and node of the Mobile Adhoc Networking MANET may go down. If a node having very less remaining battery power is used in data transfer in routing, then that node lost its power and goes down. In this paper an approach for the consumption of energy with efficient routing protocol based on remaining battery power is proposed. The algorithm proposed improves the lifetime of nodes which have very less remaining battery power as compared to other nodes. The algorithm is simulated on a sample MANET and results are evaluated. The algorithm is found efficient in increasing lifetime of MANET.