A Residual Power Balancing Routing by Traffic-Splitting Transmission in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks

In Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET), in order to reduce the battery consumption, much research have been studied so far especially on routing algorithm. This paper proposes Residual Power Balancing Routing (RPBR) scheme which uses multiple traffic paths to make every node's battery in the topology being consumed fairly, so that it could use the path longer and send more data without experiencing path failures. Like Time Delay On-demand Routing (TDOR) scheme does, the proposed scheme, RPBR, use Packet Holding Time at each mobile ad hoc node when configuring the paths. Unlike TDOR, the proposed scheme mainly aimed at multiple paths data transmission and multiple traffic flow environment. To evaluate the performance, we compared the RPBR scheme with TDOR routing and conventional AODV routing in terms of the fairness of residual power dispersion, path connection holding time, and path re-configuration overhead.