A New Approach for Energy Efficient Routing in MANETs Using Multi Objective Genetic Algorithm

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) are self- creating networks. They contain short radio range and limited bandwidth and they do not have any infrastructure support. There is a sudden change in topology of ad hoc networks. In such type of situation, establishing correct and efficient routes from source to destination is an important design issue in mobile ad hoc networks and its challenging goal is to provide energy efficient routing protocol. Power failure of a node affects overall lifetime of a network. In this paper, a new approach based on genetic algorithm has been proposed for energy efficient routing in mobile ad hoc network. A new crossover operator is used to generate child node from two parents. The algorithm not only provides best path to transfer data but also alternate paths to transfer data which can be used when one path fails. It increases the overall lifetime of the network and also make the network more reliable.