Cluster-Head Fuzzy Routing for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks

Mobile ad-hoc networks operate in the absence of any supporting infrastructure. The absence of any fixed infrastructure in mobile ad-hoc networks makes it difficult to utilize the existing Techniques for network services, and poses number of various challenges in the area. The discovery and maintenance of energy aware routing is most flinty challenge. In recent years, many approaches and techniques have been explored for the optimization of energy usage in Mobile Ad-hoc networks. Routing is one of these areas in which attempts for efficient utilization of energy have been made. These attempts use fixed (crisp) metrics for making energy-aware routing decisions. In this paper, we present a novel generalized fuzzy, logic-based approach for energy aware routing in Mobile Ad hoc networks. This generalized approach is soft and tunable and hence it can accommodate ad hoc networks comprising of different types of Mobile nodes.