Energy-efficient stable multipath routing in MANET

Abstract

In MANET, node’s battery energy and stability of the links are often affecting the communication activities in the network. These two factors are one of the main reasons which are responsible for the loss of data packets and occurrence of congestion issue that networks are facing today. In order to overcome these issues, we propose an approach known as efficient and stable multipath routing in MANETs with congestion awareness. This approach is an extension work to our previous work where bandwidth and delay are considered during the routing. Here, in this approach, network estimates the residual energy and stability of the links in the network. While estimating the residual energy, it also considers the receiving energy and transmitting energy of the node. Then, stability of the link LET is estimated; this LET is obtained by using motion parameters (i.e. velocity, direction of the nodes). Based on these parameters, the network selects the path to transmit the data packets between the nodes.