An Adaptive Transmission Power Aware Multipath Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad hoc Networks
Bhavna Arora, Nipur · Procedia Computer Science · 2015
Selection of an optimal transmission power for forwarding packets in mobile ad hoc networks has many benefits over setting a common transmission power. These benefits are reduced congestion, reduced interference in the network, lesser number of collisions and reduced energy consumption. In this paper we have proposed a new multipath routing protocol Adaptive Transmission Power – AOMDV that is capable of dynamically changing the transmission power of control packets used for route discovery in the network. Comprehensive simulations are carried out on NS-2, the proposed protocol ATP-AOMDV is compared to AOMDV under various performance metrics like average end to end delay, packet delivery ratio, network throughput and residual battery of nodes to show ATP-AOMDV performs better than AOMDV in saving battery energy in highly mobile network with high traffic loads.