A simulation study of an energy efficient routing protocol for mobile ad hoc networks

Author

Du, Xiaojiang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Eng., Indiana Univ., Fort Wayne, IN, USA

fYear

2004

fDate

18-22 April 2004

Firstpage

125

Lastpage

131

Abstract

We present a novel energy efficient routing protocol for mobile ad hoc networks. This protocol is particularly designed for dense networks. Node location information is used to simplify routing strategy. Only a small number of nodes are involved in one routing. This reduces the routing overhead and saves energy for other nodes. We conduct extensive simulations to study the performance of the routing protocol, and compare the performance with LAR routing protocol. The simulation results demonstrate that the routing protocol has very good performance and good scalability. Both the computation and simulation show that the routing protocol incurs only about 25% of the routing overhead of LAR routing protocol.

Keywords

ad hoc networks; mobile radio; routing protocols; wireless LAN; EECR routing protocol; LAR routing protocol; dense networks; energy efficient cell relay; energy efficient routing protocol; mobile ad hoc networks; node location information; routing overhead; routing strategy simplification; Ad hoc networks; Communication system security; Computational modeling; Energy efficiency; Global Positioning System; Mobile ad hoc networks; Network topology; Power engineering and energy; Routing protocols; Sensor phenomena and characterization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Simulation Symposium, 2004. Proceedings. 37th Annual

ISSN

1080-241X

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2110-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SIMSYM.2004.1299475

Filename

1299475