Performance evaluation of a Table driven and On-Demand Routing protocol in Energy Constraint MANETs

Abstract

This paper addresses energy conservation which is a very important factor in Energy Constraint Mobile ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) and also try to reduce routing overhead for efficient functioning of the network. Every protocol gives different results depending upon the application. Here we are comparing two different protocols in context of energy conservation and routing overhead. We proposed our work in two modules named Node Energy Aware Methodology which includes conditional Min-Max Battery Cost Routing Algorithm (CMM-BCR) and Destination Estimation Module which includes Distance Routing Effect Algorithm for Mobility (DREAM). Both of these modules together applied over Dynamic Source Routing protocol (DSR) which is On-Demand Routing protocol and over Destination Sequence Distance Vector Routing Protocol (DSDV) which is a Table driven routing protocol. Extensive simulation shows that when this energy scheme used with DSR provides better result than DSDV. As energy efficiency is of main concern in ad-hoc networks so our main aim is to know which among these two protocols is good in energy conservation and increases network lifetime by reducing overhead. We used NS-2 to simulate 50 nodes.