AN EFFICIENT ENERGY AWARE LINK STABLE ROUTING PROTOCOL IN MANETS

Mobile ADHOC Networks (MANETS) are infrastructure-less wireless networks in which nodes act as both source and router. All the nodes in the ADHOC network have limited battery capacity so conservation of energy becomes an important factor while routing data from a source node to destination node. Wireless links are generally much inferior and less secure as compared to wired one. Frequent link failures result in lesser QoS (Quality of Service) parameters such as lesser throughput, higher end to end delay, higher latency and less utilization of link bandwidth. The proposed approach will consider the multi-objective function which will consider both energy saving as well as the stability of link while defining a fitness function using a genetic algorithm. The above technique can also be implemented in Vehicular ADHOC Networks (VANETS). Since VANET is a subclass of MANET with the car to car ADHOC networks. VANETS are useful in road emergency situation or in case of inter- vehicle communication.