Energy efficient path selection in MANET

Development of an efficient energy-aware routing protocol is the need of today's MANETs (Mobile Adhoc Networks). A lot of research has been devoted to develop energy-aware routing protocols. In this paper we have combined a few existing methods along with some new changes and reviewed the response of two popular on-demand routing protocols “Dynamic Source Routing (DSR)” and “Ad-hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV)”. We rely on network simulator ns-2.35 for our simulation and results. The results reveal that modified protocols produce better results in all aspects of network parameters.