Review on Energy Efficient Routing Protocol in MANET

Abstract: Mobile ad hoc networks are infrastructure-fewer networks required for establishing communication between two or more nodes without creating a common access point. There are so many routing protocols introduced in the recent scenario. In the case of On-Demand routing algorithms like AODV and DSR were taken as one of the effective scheme for achieving good Quality of service parameters compared to Table Driven method. Establishing correct and efficient routes is a main design problem in MANETs along with Energy Efficiency. Energy based papers proposed in the recent years consider the on-demand routing of AODV and DSR and some modifications have been done in order to find out a better energy efficient routing algorithm. This paper is a review of new and improved energy based routing methods used in Mobile Ad hoc networks.

Keywords: MANET; Clustering; Energy consumption; AODV; DSR; Qualty of Service; Routing protocol.