Comparative Study of Energy Efficient Routing Algorithms in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks

Abstract

Mobile ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) is a wireless network which comprises of set of wireless mobile nodes.
These nodes are infrastructure-less as well as devoid of central administration. Important issues in MANET are link
failure, power failure of node, limited bandwidth, and limited transmission power. To overcome these problems energy
efficient protocol has become a very interesting and important research area. Energy consumption is a vital issue
because routing is based on nodes battery lifetime and it's efficiency to maintain the network. So routing decisions must
be such that critical nodes does not exhaust and network lifetime and route reliability increases. In this paper, we
investigate the different protocols proposed to resolve the issue of energy consumption of routing nodes in MANET. We
provide parameterized study of energy efficient protocols. Main aim of the study is to explore the ideas for innovators
and researchers to design more energy efficient routing protocols.