Geographic Adaptive Routing for Improving Link Stability and Energy Efficiency in MANET

Routing of data packets in Mobile Ad hoc networks requires more power than in other networks. The forwarding of packets in MANET is placed through many intermediate nodes in a multi-hop procedure. The general way is that protocols should also work on optimizing the energy consumption. It leads to the limited use of energy available in wireless nodes of network. The design methodology of routing method and protocols should have the awareness about energy consumption and link life time of the network. The routing protocol should satisfy some Quality of Service constraints and have to reduce the route discovery and route maintenance procedure. Energy saving and path duration and stability can be two contrasting efforts and trying to satisfy both of them can be very difficult. The proposed hybrid approach tries to improve the energy consumption and link stability by using link stability metric, energy aware metric and geographic adaptive fidelity.