Multipath Mobile Ad-Hoc Network Energy Effective Routing Protocol Using Fitness Functions

Abstract

The Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) is a series of mobile wireless nodes that form a temporary network spontaneously, without relying on any networks or central administration. As the mobile nodes do not have a permanent power source and must rely on batteries, energy usage is considered one of the main shortcomings in MANET, thus reducing network life as batteries get depleted very quickly as nodes travel and change their locations rapidly around MANET. Through applying the Fitness Function technique to maximize energy consumption in the Ad Hoc On Demand Multipath Distance Vector (AOMDV) routing protocol, the study suggested in this paper illustrates this very particular issue of energy consumption in MANET. The suggested protocol is called the Multipath Distance Vector with the Fitness Function Ad Hoc On Demand (FF-AOMDV). In multipath routing, the fitness function is used to find the optimum route from the source to the destination to decrease energy consumption.Using Network Simulator Version 2 (NS-2), where performance was compared with AOMDV and Ad Hoc On Demand Multipath Routing with Life Maximization (AOMRLM) protocols, the two most common protocols proposed in this area, the performance of the proposed FFAOMDV protocol was evaluated. The comparison was measured based on efficiency metrics for energy consumption, throughput, packet distribution ratio, end-to-end delay, network lifetime and routing overhead ratio, node speed, packet size and simulation time variations. The findings specifically show that AOMDV and AOMR-LM outperformed the suggested FF-AOMDV under most of the network efficiency metrics and parameters.