A Load-Balancing Routing Considering Power Conservation in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

Of existing ad-hoc protocols, on-demand routing protocol is suitable to wireless networks that have frequent mobility of nodes. Besides, when network is stable, data is transmitted after choosing shortest path without any consideration of any particular node´s traffic, and then traffic is concentrated on a particular node, which raises the problem of delay of transmission and huge energy consuming. In this paper, load-balancing routing method, which considers power conversation, is suggested. The proposed method improves (complements) the function of router discovery by adding energy factor to the existing DSR (dynamic source routing)