Energy Efficient Routing Protocol Avoiding Route Breaks based on DSR

An accelerating energy crisis in the oil and gas industry is driving development and investment in Mobile Ad Hoc Network technologies. The mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a self-configuring infrastructure-free network of mobile devices connected by wireless links; it is essentially a temporary wireless network which users who are willing to communicate form and who subsequently use multi-hop peerto-peer routing to provide the network connectivity. The nodes in MANET being mobile may result in dynamic topology with a high rate of link breakages and network partitions leading to an interruption in the ongoing communication. The link breaks in MANET routing protocols are significant contributor of energy consumption. In order to reduce the cost incurred in tackling the link failure, a routing protocol avoiding route breaks based on Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) has been proposed. The proposed energy aware efficient DSR (EAEDSR) considers the link and node stability to determine preemptive metric. The protocol’s performance is found to be promising.