International Journal of Computer Applications |
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
Volume 23 - Number 8 |
Year of Publication: 2011 |
Authors: Humaira Nishat, Dr.D.Srinivas Rao |
10.5120/2908-3820 |
Humaira Nishat, Dr.D.Srinivas Rao . Energy Aware QoS on-demand Routing Protocols for MANETs. International Journal of Computer Applications. 23, 8 ( June 2011), 12-17. DOI=10.5120/2908-3820
Mobile nodes in an ad hoc wireless network have limited battery power. These nodes need to be energy conserved to maximize the battery life. Thus, development of energy efficient routing protocols is needed due to the limited battery power of all nodes. In this paper, we have considered two on-demand routing protocols- AODV & DSR for mobile ad hoc networks and evaluated the energy performance metrics in all the four modes (transmitting, receiving, idle & sleep) and the residual energy. We have also evaluated other performance metrics such as packet delivery fraction, throughput and end-to-end delay for both protocols. The simulation has been carried out using ns2. Finally, by the observations we conclude that DSR offers the best combination of energy consumption and throughput performance. AODV gives better packet delivery fraction and delay performance compared to DSR in a more stressful conditions i.e., more number of nodes.