An Energy Entropy-Based Minimum Power Cost Multipath Routing in MANET

Abstract

Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) are non-infrastructure networks consisting of mobile nodes. Since the mobile nodes have limited battery power, they are very important to using energy efficiently in MANETs. In order to maximize the lifetime of MANET, traffic should be sent via a route that can avoid nodes with low energy while minimizing the total transmission power. This paper proposes an Energy Entropy-based minimum Power cost Multipath routing algorithm in MANET (EEPMM). It is typically proposed to increase the reliability of data transmission or to provide load balancing. In simulation experiments, we compare EEPMM routing protocol with SHM and MEA-DSR routing protocol, in terms of the network lifetime, and the energy consumption when a packet is transmitted. The performance results indicate that the proposed scheme is quite adaptive for energy-efficient communication in MANETs.