On-Demand Routing Algorithm Base on Energy Balancing in MANET

A MANET is an autonomous infrastructureless network system of mobile hosts which are connected with each other via wireless links. The traditional routing protocol for wireless MANET is unable to achieve balanced energy consumption and could not adapt to the dynamic topology changes well. A novel on-demand algorithm is proposed based on energy balancing and LMST algorithm. The proposed algorithm excludes the unstable links in routing discovery, and allows the node with more energy forward the routing request packet preferentially. The simulation experiments demonstrate, comparing with the LMST algorithm, the algorithm increases the average life time, decreases the average transmission power, and achieves energy balancing in the network and prolong the life-span of the network, which shows the proposed algorithm is highly practical.