Energy Optimization for Cooperative Multipath Routing in MANETs using Network Coding

In case of routing protocols in MANETs (Mobile Ad hoc NETworks), the most critical aspect is to take care of the energy consumption and efficiency during data transmission from source to destination[1]. During data transmission the relay nodes within the range of source node can access the data packets from the source node and transmit the packets to the destination node as per the destination address, then the original data is retrieved by the receiver(destination node) after decoding the received packet. But an optimal path that guarantees minimum consumption of energy during data transmission has maximum energy efficiency[2]. In this paper, we propose a method which ensures maximum energy efficiency. It is based on Network-Coding and Energy-Balancing for Cooperative-Multipath-Routing. In this paper, we have implemented the above technique by using NS2 and have evaluated energy efficiency and the consumption of energy when a packet of data is transmitted following a particular path through the relay nodes.