Agent based power aware on demand distance vector routing protocol for wireless mobile ad hoc network

In this study a power aware on demand routing protocol using mobile agents called Agent Based Ad hoc on Demand Distance vector routing protocol (AB-AODV) was proposed. This protocol uses the on demand capability of Ad hoc on Demand Distance Vector (AODV) routing protocol and a distributed topology discovery mechanism using mobile agents. Our protocol model uses a mixture of mobile and static agents to gather relevant information. These agents could perform important tests, which could be used to generate the best power aware route through a network. This research looks at different models for the deployment of these agents, which balance the usage of static and mobile agents. These are appraised in the terms of performance, reconfigurability and easy of installation. However, the simulation studies carried out for table-driven and on-demand ad hoc routing protocols fall short of examining essential power-based performance metrics, such as average node and network lifetime, energy-based protocol fairness, average dissipated energy per protocol and standard deviation of the energy dissipated by each individual node. This research present a thorough energy-based performance study of power aware AODV routing protocols for wireless mobile ad hoc networks. Moreover, we propose some novel enhancements to routing in wireless ad hoc networks that enables the admission of flows without jeopardizing the limited energy of the wireless stations. © 2006 Asian Network for Scientific Information.