A Fuzzy-based Delay and Energy-Aware Routing Protocol for Multi-hop Cellular Networks

Nowadays, the wide spread of devices like the tablets, mobile phones and personal computer have driven the wireless networks growth. As the routing procedure is the core of communication in this network, then, its improvement will influence the whole network performance. Due to the limited energy of the mobile devices, balancing the consumption of energy and the load between the different nodes of the networks becomes an important issue. In this paper, we propose a routing protocol for multi-hop cellular networks. This protocol selects an optimal route based on two parameters: the gain time and the energy to improve the lifetime of the whole network. To handle the imprecision of the routing decisions, we propose a fuzzy logic system. The conducted simulations show that our proposed fuzzy logic based routing protocol outperforms the Ad Hoc On-demand Distance Vector protocol (AODV) in terms of end-to-end delay and packet delivery ration.