POWER SAVING MECHANISM FOR HYBRID ROUTING PROTOCOL USING SCHEDULING TECHNIQUE

Mohanavel, G. Ravi G

Abstract: Mobile ad hoc networks are infrastructure less network which are composed of wireless nodes of limited battery constraints with mobility and communication capabilities. Energy management is a challenging approach in such kind of wireless networks. It deals with controlling the battery discharge, adjusting the transmission power of the nodes, and scheduling of power source so as to reduce the energy consumption of individual nodes as much as possible. This paper proposes an Energy management algorithm for Zone Routing Protocol using the extended energy conservation technique called AFECA (Adaptive Fidelity Energy Conservation Algorithm) and Energy consumption is further optimized by using Distance based energy conservation algorithm by taking variable transmission range into consideration. These Energy saving Algorithms are incorporated with well-known hybrid routing protocol called Zone Routing Protocol to optimize the utilization of energy. The performance parameters such as Energy, throughput, delay, of modified ZRP are compared with ZRP using NS-2, which shows that modified ZRP is well suited and an efficient protocol.

Keywords: AFECA, Distance Based Energy Conservation, Energy management, Mobile Ad hoc network, Transmission Power, ZRP.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0319149