A SURVEY ON ENERGY EFFICIENT ROUTING PROTOCOLS IN MANET?

Day by day technology rapidly increases, mobility capabilities have become easily available to devices, thus mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are being deployed to perform a number of important tasks. Power consumption is a very crucial design concern in Mobile ad hoc networks since wireless nodes are typically battery power limited. Power consumption can occur due to receiving the data packets as well as transmitting the data traffic, mobility of nodes etc. Power failure of mobile node affects networks lifetime. In this paper, we are going to describe various power aware routing protocols in mobile ad-hoc networks.