New Power-Aware Multicast Algorithm for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a decentralized network that consists of mobile nodes. Each node operates with the limited battery power to forward the data packets from the source to a group of the nodes. In a MANET, multicast is a very useful communication system for group-oriented applications, where one-tomany propagations are needed frequently in critical situations. This article presents a new power-aware multicasting algorithm for MANETs. Here, it uses the residual battery energy for the multicasting from the source to a group of destinations. The proposed model increases the lifetime of the nodes and the network lifetime. The simulation work shows better results in terms of the node lifetime and network lifetime as compared to other models, ODMRP and AMRoute. If the group size is 12, then the proposed model has kept the nodes alive for 8,100 s, whereas the ODMRP and AMRoute models have kept the nodes alive for 7,400 s and 6,400 s respectively.