During the past few years, there has been increasing interest in the design of energy efficient protocols for wireless ad-hoc networks. Node within an ad hoc network generally relies on batteries (or exhaustive energy sources) for power. Since these energy sources have a limited lifetime, power availability is one of the most important constraints for the operation of the ad hoc network. Therefore energy efficiency is of vital importance in the design of protocols for the application in such networks and efficient operations are critical to enhance the network lifetime. A routing protocol that does not take into account of congestion control will result in usage of paths that are already heavy in traffic load. It will add more burdens on the energy consumption to these paths and indirectly lead to imbalanced energy consumption of the whole network. The nodes in a high traffic load path will ‘die’ off faster than nodes in paths that have lower traffic load. AOMDV protocol is provided the alternative path from source to destination so that if one path is congested another path can be use to send the packet from source to destination and thus reduce energy consumption. in these research work we are using threshold value to choose some path from the selected path then average energy scheme is used to choose the path for packet delivery.
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