A LITERATURE SURVEY ON POWER AWARE ROUTING PROTOCOLS IN MOBILE AD-HOC NETWORK

Abstract

Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET) is an autonomous set of wireless devices usually called as mobile nodes
communicate with other nodes over a wireless link without any pre- existing infrastructure. The mobile nodes act as a not
only host but also as a router to forward data and control packets to other nodes in order to reach the destination. Each
mobile node in the network is driven by a limited energy resource i.e. battery power. Due to dynamic behavior of nodes,
topology changes frequently cause more power consumption and reduce node’s lifetime. Effective energy utilization and
finding an efficient path between source and destination node are the major challenges in a wireless mobile network. Many
methodologies have been proposed in implementing an energy-efficient routing. Proposed paper presents some of the latest
work carried out on minimizing energy consumption to enhance the lifetime of the network