Energy Saving DSR Protocol for MANET

Abstract

Mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is an infrastructure-less network where the communication capabilities of the network are limited by the battery power of the nodes. Since there is no central infrastructure, It causes various kinds of problems, such as energy efficient routing. Energy efficient routing is one of the key issues in MANET because all the nodesare battery powered, so failure of one node affect the entire network. If a node runs out of the energy then this may cause partitioning of network. Since each node has limited power, energy become main threats to the network lifetime. Routing must be energy efficient so it will increase the lifetime of the network. In this work, we have proposed an Energy Saving on demand Dynamic Source Routing (ESDSR) protocol for MANET to minimize energy consumption using variable transmission power and load balancing. The aim of this work is to reduce the energy consumption, for data packet transmission between source and destination, and minimizing the overutilization of the node. We have compared the proposed technique with the existing one and the result shows that the our technique gives better packet delivery ratio, and reduce the energy consumption at each node.