Power Aware Dynamic Source Routing Protocol To Increase Lifetime Of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is infrastructure less system of communication. Many remote areas where infrastructure based systems are not feasible. MANETs provide the perfect solution for that situation. Although, MANETs use various routing protocols but Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) is the widely used routing protocol among them because of the flexibility and efficiency of the protocol. MANET usually takes battery power for the operation and it determines the lifetime of MANET. In this paper, we have proposed two modifications in the algorithm of traditional DSR to increase the lifetime of MANET. It will prevent the network from being partitioning and helps node from being sinking down. Initial energy of node will determine the behaviour of the MANET. We have simulated our proposed methodology in ns2.35 and results are found impressive. It works perfectly at lower initial energy of nodes.