Designing a Energy Efficient Node Disjoint Multipath Routing technique to achieve energy efficiency in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) are wireless networks which comprise of mobile nodes with limited energy resources. Every node cooperates to perform routing and expends energy on a frequent basis. Nodes are mobile thus link breakages are common and new routes need to be established quickly. Traditional routing protocols tend to find shortest routes to destination providing best-effort delivery service. However due to limited energy and bandwidth resources shortest path routes may not suffice and may usually degrade the performance of the network. In this paper an Energy aware Node Disjoint routing technique END-AODV is proposed that is based on the traditional AODV protocol. The technique designed is based on the argument that node disjoint multipath routing can conserve energy more efficiently as compared to link disjoint routing. Link Disjoint routing leads to overuse of a subset of nodes thus decreasing the overall network lifetime. The technique proposed incorporates energy drain rate metric to establish energy aware routes which are node disjoint in nature. Simulation results with ns2.34 simulator show efficiency of the proposed technique in terms of packet delivery ratio, average energy consumption per data bit delivered, network lifetime and average end to end delay.