A Survey on Lifetime Maximization in MANET

Abstract

Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) are created dynamically without the support of any infrastructure with less cost and the nodes in the network communicate in a peer-to-peer basis. The communication between the nodes in the network is established with well-defined routing protocols. The traditional routing protocols were modified to consider the limitations of MANETs and developed routing protocols like DSDV, DSR and AODV to suit the needs of this dynamic network. MANETs are used for real time traffic transportation like video and audio along with data traffic and for real time traffic, providing routing with QoS is a challenging task. Although the conventional routing protocols of MANETs had been modified to provide QoS, most of the proposed protocols either concentrate on one or two QoS parameters in identifying a path. The path stability is ignored where the path break happens often due to node mobility resulting in link break or drain in node energy leading to node failure.

Firefly Optimized Resource Control and Routing Stability in MANET

“…Energy use was low. Energy-efficient routing was introduced in [8,9] with QoS monitoring agents that measured link dependability. Robust broadcast propagation(RBP) protects network energy.…”