Exploratory Assessment Based Child Nodes Selection (EACNS): Energy Efficient Multicast Routing Topology for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Abstract

The networks formed by the self-energized nodes that loosely coupled with no or fewer infrastructure and without a central monitoring system is said to be ad hoc networks and if mobility is the property of these nodes then that networks are referred as mobile ad hoc networks. The nodes in these networks are having limited range to couple with other nodes. Hence in order to transmit data, they establish a route between source and destination nodes through hop level nodes. The critical point of the route establishment is selection of optimal neighbor nodes in the context of Quality of Service. This is much critical if data to be transferred to multiple destinations, which can be referred as multicast routing. In order to optimize the process of neighbor node selection in multicast route establishment, here in this article we proposed an energy efficient multicast routing topology, which is based on Exploratory Assessment based Child Nodes Selection (EACNS). EACNS is a Tree-based multicast routing topology for mobile ad hoc networks distinguishing from others in its class by the defining an exploratory scale to assess the optimal child nodes towards minimal energy usage and maximal network life. The objective the model is to be loosely coupled route selection strategy to any of the benchmarking tree based multicast routing protocols explored in literature. The strategy that used to select tree based multicast route is an explorative scale that defined based on three metrics coined in this paper, which are called energy consumption ratio, reserve battery life and multicast scope. The experimental results concluding that the proposed topology is the best of in its class to minimize the energy usage and maximize the network life.