An Energy and Traffic Aware Routing approach as an extension of AODV

The importance of Ad-hoc network is due to its nature of infrastructure-less and decentralization. In Ad-hoc network some nodes can become a critical spot in the network as they forward the packets to most of their neighbors. These critical nodes can deplete their battery power earlier, because of excessive load and processing for data forwarding. These unbalanced loads turn to nodes failure, network partition and reduce the route lifetime and route reliability. Energy consumption issue is a vital research topic in wireless ad hoc networks, because wireless nodes in such networks operate on limited battery power. This model paper describes An Energy and Traffic Aware Routing approach as an extension of AODV algorithm for Ad hoc network, utilizing the high energy path based on Route Selection Function. Our proposed algorithm adapts existing AODV routing protocol to improve performance in terms of traffic load on node, energy conservation and other performance metrics. The purpose of Route Selection Function is to improve lifespan of Ad hoc network and corresponding effect on overall network performance.