Power Aided Zone Based Routing for Mobile
Subbaiah Shanmugavel · 2004
An ad-hoc network is the cooperafive engagement of a collection of mobile nodes without the required intervention of any centralized access point or existing infrastructure. A number of routing protocols have already been proposed for Ad-hoc networks. In most of these protocols, routing tables and considerable routing overheads are used to achieve routing. This paper proposes an approach to eliminate the use of routing tables and ,to reduce the overhead significantly in order to achieve elFiaent muting. In this paper, we propose Power aided zoning (PAZ) protocol. In which power zones are formed between the source and the destination during the route discovery phase. Oply the nodes that are in the periphery of these zona participate in the data transfer between source and destination. Every node maintains two-dhensional array that indicates whether the node Ls enabled to route the data for 8 particular source or not. The algorithm Is simulated using CloMoSim and the performance results are compsred with DSR and AODV. The ~ults ladicate a considerable improvement In delay and control overhead performance.