Omar Smail, Bernard Cousin, Zoulikha Mekkakia, and Rachida Mekki (2014)
A Energy Aware and Stable Multipath Routing Protocol in Clustered Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
In: International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (ICCSA), edited by ACS/IEEE, Doha, Quatar.
Ad hoc networks are wireless networks that can operate
without infrastructure and without centralized network
management; they may contain nodes with limited battery
power; hence, energy conservation is a critical requirement
in the design of routing protocols for ad hoc networks.
Clustering has been proposed as a promising method for
simplifying the routing process in mobile ad hoc networks
when network size increases. In this paper, we propose an
energy-efficient multipath routing protocol, called ES-CMR
(Energy aware and Stable Clustered based Multipath Routing
protocol), which preserves the residual energy of nodes and
increases the network lifetime. To achieve this goal, we
use a single objective model to select energy-efficient
paths with stable links. Simulation results demonstrate
that ES-CMR has better performance in terms of energy
consumption, network lifetime, and end-to-end delay