Distributed Energy Adaptive Location-Based Cooperative MAC Protocol for Prolonging the Network Lifetime of MANET

A Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) is an infrastructure-less, dynamic network consisting of a collection of wireless mobile nodes that communicate with each other without the use of any centralized authority. It is a network that allows user to change its location and configure itself, and use wireless connections to connect various networks. In this paper, a survey on various protocols like CMAC, DEL-CMAC, and strategies like energy efficient relay selection and power allocation strategy, optimal grouping strategy, lyapunov optimization are considered., based on the factors like throughput, delay, reliability, energy efficiency, relay selection and power allocation. All these protocols and strategies are used only for small and less mobile networks. In this paper the working of DEL-CMAC protocol is proposed which will prolong the network lifetime of MANET, and a system is proposed which will use cross layer scheme using cooperative diversity along with DEL-CMAC to increase the network lifetime of MANET by conserving energy while minimizing throughput and delay degradation.