Omar Smail, Zoulikha Mekkakia, and Bernard Cousin (2011)
Energy Efficiency in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks with Node-disjoint Path Routing
In: 7th International Workshop on Systems, Signal Processing and their Applications (WOSSPA 2011), Tipaza, Algeria, pages 127 - 130.
Routing in ad hoc mobile networks is a problem which is
not satisfactorily solved yet. Traditional techniques of
routing are not well adapted to new networks. Indeed, their
lack of reactivity with respect to the traffic and network
changes make them not easily usable but at the price of an
oversizing of the network resources (network bandwidth,
node memory utilization, node CPU load, etc). The research
community was interested these last years in the
improvement of the ad hoc routing, and among the solutions
suggested the multipath routing has been considered.
Multiple paths are exploited in order to ensure
reliability, quick time reaction to changes with a low
overhead generated by the control messages. We present in
this article, an extension of the well known routing
protocol AODV (Ad hoc On-demand Distance Vector). We
propose to improve the multipath routing strategy with a
path classification enabling the choice of the paths having
the best energy level.