Power and mobility-aware adaptive dynamic source routing in MANET

MANET is a collection of wireless mobile nodes forming a temporary communication network without the aid of any established infrastructure or centralized administration. MANET is characterized by a highly dynamic network topology. This makes routing discovery and maintenance challenging for routing protocol design. On the other hand, energy efficient routing may be another important design criteria for MANET since most of nodes are usually powered by battery with limited capacity. With optimization of dynamic source routing (DSR) protocol, this paper proposes a new routing protocol PMADSR that can be aware of the mobility and remaining battery capacity of nodes. Performance simulation results show that the proposed PMADSR protocol can dynamic balance the traffic load inside the whole network, so as to prolong the network lifetime, as well as achieve higher throughput.