Title: Power-aware node-disjoint multipath source routing with low overhead in MANET

Authors: M. Bheemalingaiah, M.M. Naidu, D. Sreenivasa Rao, G. Varaprasad

Addresses: Department of Information Technology, Narayana Engineering College, Nellore, 524 004, India. ' Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Sri Venkateswara University College of Engineering, Tirupati, 517 502, India. ' Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, 500 072, India. ' Department of Computer Science and Engineering, B.M.S College of Engineering, Bangalore, 560 019, India

Abstract: With the advance of wireless communication technologies, small-size and high-performance computing and communication devices like laptops and personal digital assistants are increasingly used in daily life. After the success of second generation mobile system, more interest was started in wireless communications. This interest had led to two types of the wireless networks such as infrastructure wireless network and infrastructure less wireless network, also called mobile ad hoc network (MANET). The research challenges in MANET are related to the routing, security, reliability, scalability, quality of services, internetworking, power consumption and multimedia applications. All the mobile nodes of MANET operate on the battery power; hence power consumption becomes an important issue in MANET. It proposes a power-aware node-disjoint multipath source routing (PNDMSR) for real-time traffic, which balances the node energy utilisation to increase the network lifetime. It takes the network congestion into account to reduce the routing delay across the network, and increases the reliability of the data packets reaching the destination.

Keywords: mobile ad hoc networks; MANETs; power consumption; dynamic source routing; DSR; network lifetime; choke packet; multipath routing; node energy utilisation; network congestion; routing delay.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMNDI.2009.030445

International Journal of Mobile Network Design and Innovation, 2009 Vol.3 No.1, pp.33 - 45

Published online: 16 Dec 2009 *

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