Energy Draining Rate Based-AODV Routing in Wireless Mesh Network

Abstract

Wireless mesh networks recently emerged as flexible, low cost and multipurpose networking platforms with wired infrastructure connected to the internet. The different routing algorithms such as AODV, DSDV and TORA consider metrics like hop count, expected transmission count and expected transmission time. In this type of network, nodes often have a limited battery supply to use for sending and receiving data. To overcome this, we have proposed a new routing model by modifying the existing AODV algorithm as it is of reactive routing type, on-demand, discovers route only when they are needed, and it incorporates distance vector routing protocol. Energy draining rate based (ERDB) routing AODV model refers to the mechanism of taking into account the remaining battery capacity and energy draining rate of the node in order to decide on whether or not to relay traffic. The usage of nodes having high energy draining rate and low energy capacity should be avoided for relaying traffic to increase network life time. The experiments are simulated using NS3 simulator by considering various situations such as keeping the nodes static and moving nodes dynamically. In this paper, we present the related works, proposed model, Simulation and results.

Keywords

• Energy
• Draining rate
• AODV
• Routing
• Wireless mesh networks