Energy Efficient Multipath Selection for MANET using Fitness Calculation

MANET is sequentially self-configuring, infrastructure fewer networks of mobile devices connected without wires. These networks face problems such as lack of congestion control, reliability, and energy consumption. In MANET energy is an important factor, where its efficient usage increases lifetime of network. Therefore multipath selection with concern to energy efficiency is proposed in this paper by calculating fitness value. The fitness value is calculated through the parameters node energy level, distance of every route, energy consumed in the process of route discovery and bandwidth. Hence routing table maintains the details of each node route list and their corresponding energy level. As a result this multipath protocol shifts the route without further overhead, delay and loss of packets. Therefore our proposed protocol Ad hoc on demand multipath distance vector (AOMDV – FC) with fitness calculation has attained better reliability, throughput, minimum energy consumption and end to end delay. Comparing to existing approaches like AODV and PAAOMDV our proposed protocol achieves better performance.