An Energy Aware Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks

In this paper we propose a new energy aware routing protocol for mobile ad-hoc networks. Nodes in a mobile ad-hoc network operate on batteries, and hence designing energy aware protocols to maximize the battery lifetime is important. Traditional routing protocols fail to address the energy issues present in these networks. Several energy aware routing protocols have been designed in the recent years for mobile ad-hoc networks. We present a new protocol named KHOP that is based on ideas in two well-known existing protocols. Detailed simulation results are presented to show that the new protocol works better than both the existing protocols for a large number of scenarios.