An Adaptative Energy Efficient Routing Protocol for MANET

The dynamic nature of Mobile ad hoc network has several constraints like scalability, robust connectivity and limited power constraints. So an efficient routing protocol is required. It should be adaptable and able to maintain stable routes in spite of the dynamic network connectivity. This paper proposes a hybrid protocol, called Poly-Meshed routing protocol (PMRP). It is a cluster-based routing protocol. It deploys the concept of mesh tree. It minimized the control overhead while maintaining robust connectivity and scalability. PMRP uniquely addresses the issues of dynamic adaptation. It has a feature that enables an enhanced connectivity through a hierarchical cluster-based approach. It deploys virtual identifiers. The main advantage of PMRP over the various other MANET protocols lies in simplicity and low message complexity. The simulation results show that the PMRP perform better in terms of Packet Delivery Ratio, Routing Overhead, End to End delay, Effects of Non-Optimality, Configurability and Energy Consumption when compared with AODV (Ad hoc On demand Distance Vector) protocol