Investigation of energy efficient routing parameters & protocols

Routing protocol in ad hoc networks essentially needs a routing mechanism to establish a path from source to destination. The protocols differ in techniques used to discover path and recover in case of failure. Traditional routing protocol such as AODV, DSR, DSDV, OLSR, and AOMDV have been found to perform efficiently in the networks without consideration of battery power or network life time. This paper analyzes the traditional routing protocols to find a batter candidate on which further applied energy efficient techniques to optimize the energy consumption. The performance of protocols adjudge energy consumption versus various parameters such as data insertion rate, mobility, network density, the degree of nodes, number of connections in the networks. The performance analysis implemented in NS-2 simulator and finds the reactive routing protocols AODV & AOMDV perform as compared to proactive routing protocols DSDV & OLSR.