Energy Consumption Evaluation for Mobile Ad Hoc Routing Protocols

Abstract

Rapidly developing wireless network technology has been continued to become the most popular research field for a couple of years. Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET), which is a type of a wireless network, is formed by mobile nodes. It is a crucial issue for the network that the data passing through these nodes is delivered by the most appropriate route. In this study, the most common routing protocols, Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV), Dynamic Source Routing (DSR), Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR) and Destination Sequence Distance Vector (DSDV), are evaluated by using different scenarios in NS2 ( Network Simulator 2) simulation environment. As is well known, the lifetime of a wireless network is restricted to battery limits of nodes located inside. Because of this reason, chosen routing protocol for MANET is significant for the lifetime of the network. In this study, energy consumption of above-mentioned routing protocols was analyzed under different conditions. It is shown with extensive simulation results that the table-driven protocols such as DSDV have better performance in terms of energy efficiency.

Keywords

• AODV
• DSR
• OLSR
• MANET
• Energy Consumption