On Demand Multipath Routing Protocol for Power Aware Routing in MANET

Mobile ad hoc networks are the collection of mobile nodes where it has no access points. Power Consumption of the nodes are major issue while considering the mobility of the nodes. Energy in mobile adhoc networks is of much important. Similarly shortest path from source to destination is also important for routing. To address these issues a routing protocol is proposed which gives an optimum between these issues. Power aware adhoc on-demand multipath distance vector (PAAOMDV) is proposed to overcome the issue of energy and shortest path in a single routing protocol. This protocol helps in updating the routing table with both the node route list and their corresponding energies. As this is a multipath protocol, it shifts the route without further overhead, delay and loss of packets. Simulation results shows that PAAOMDV performs well compared to ad-hoc on-demand multipath distance vector (AOMDV) routing protocol even after introducing energy related fields in PAAOMDV.