Energy Consumption Analysis for Mobile Ad Hoc Routing Protocols

The wireless network technology has been continued to become the most popular research field for a couple of years. Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET), which is a type of a wireless network, is formed by mobile nodes. As is well known, the lifetime of a wireless network is restricted to battery limits of nodes located inside. Because of this reason, chosen routing protocol for a MANET is significant for the lifetime of the network. In this study, energy consumption of Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV), Dynamic Source Routing (DSR), Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR) and Destination Sequence Distance Vector (DSDV) protocols was analyzed with the performance metrics such as average energy consumption, reception energy consumption ratio, transition energy consumption ratio and idle energy consumption ratio under four different conditions, number of nodes, offered load, movement speed and topological area. It is shown with extensive simulation results that the table-driven protocols such as DSDV have better performance in terms of energy efficiency. Keywords: MANET, AODV, DSR, OLSR, energy consumption