Energy consumption speed-based routing for mobile ad hoc networks

This paper describes an adaptive routing mechanism based on the energy consumption rate of nodes for on-demand routing protocols in mobile ad-hoc networks. Our algorithm allows a fairly energy consumption during route establishment by building routes that are lower congested than the others. To do this, the congestion information is obtained from a computed cost that depends mainly on the energy consumption rate. The main features of our mechanism are that it is simple, efficient and it can be applied for any on-demand routing protocol. We evaluate through simulations the performance of the AODV routing protocol including our scheme, which we called AODV-energy, and we compare it with the basic AODV routing protocol. Results show that our new concept outperforms the basic AODV. Indeed, our scheme reduces to 20