VARIABLE RANGE ENERGY EFFICIENT LOCATION AIDED ROUTING FOR MANET

D.C. Wyld, et al. (Eds): CCSEA 2011, CS & IT 02, pp. 321–333, 2011.
© CS & IT-CSCP 2011 DOI: 10.5121/csit.2011.1229
VARIABLE RANGE ENERGY EFFICIENT LOCATION
AIDED ROUTING FOR MANET
Nivedita N. Joshi1
and Radhika D. Joshi2
1
Department of Electronics and Tele-communication Engineering, College of
Engineering, Pune, India
niv.joshi@gmail.com
2
Department of Electronics and Tele-communication Engineering, College of
Engineering, Pune, India
rdj.extc@coep.ac.in
ABSTRACT
A Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (MANET) is a temporary, infrastructure-less and distributed network
having mobile nodes. MANET has limited resources like bandwidth and energy. Due to limited
battery power nodes die out early and affect the network lifetime. To make network energy
efficient, we have modified position based Location Aided Routing (LAR1) for energy
conservation in MANET. The proposed protocol is known as Variable Range Energy aware
Location Aided Routing (ELAR1-VAR). The proposed scheme controls the transmission power
of a node according to the distance between the nodes. It also includes energy information on
route request packet and selects the energy efficient path to route data packets. The comparative
analysis of proposed scheme and LAR1 is done by using the QualNet simulator. ELAR1-VAR
protocol improves the network lifetime by reducing energy consumption by 20% for dense and
mobile network while maintaining the packet delivery ratio above 90%.
KEYWORDS
MANET, LAR1, Packet Delivery Ratio, Energy Consumption
1. INTRODUCTION
Wireless communication is one of the fastest growing fields in Telecommunication Industry.
These systems, such as cellular, cordless phones, wireless local area networks (WLAN) have
become an essential tool for people in today’s life. Using these systems and the equipments like
PDA, laptops, cell phones user can access all the required information whenever and wherever
needed. All these systems need some fixed infrastructure. It takes time and potentially high cost
to set up the necessary infrastructure. There are situations where user required networking
connections are not available in a given geographic area, and providing the needed connectivity
and network services in these situations becomes a real challenge. So, in this situation mobile
communication network without a pre-exist network infrastructure is the best solution. The Ad
Hoc Networks are wireless networks characterized by the absence of fixed infrastructures. The
main aim of mobile ad- hoc network (MANET) [1] is to support robust and efficient operation in
mobile wireless networks.
MANET consists of mobile nodes which form a spontaneous network without a need of fixed
infrastructure. It is an autonomous system in which mobile hosts connected by wireless links are
free to move randomly and often act as routers at the same time. Hence, it forms multi-hop
network. The ad-hoc networks are finding more importance likely due to the features that they
can be easily deployed as well as reconfigured. This allows the use of this kind of network in

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special circumstances, such as disastrous events, the reduction or elimination of the wiring costs
and the exchange of information among users independently from the environment. The
applications for MANETs are ranging from large-scale, mobile, highly dynamic networks, to
small, static networks that are constrained by power sources [2]. It can be used in military
communication, commercial sectors like disaster management, emergency operations, wireless
sensor networks, etc.
Deployment of ad-hoc network leads to many challenges such as limited battery power, limited
bandwidth, multi hop routing, dynamic topology, security [1]. But, the major issue in MANET is
energy consumption since nodes are usually mobile and battery-operated. Power failure of a
mobile node affects its functionality thus the overall network lifetime. To prolong life time of the
network, ad-hoc routing protocol should consider energy consumption. Efficient minimum energy
routing schemes can greatly reduce energy consumption and extends the lifetime of the networks.
Different routing protocols are designed for MANET such as AODV, DSR, OLSR, ZRP, and
LAR, which meets some of challenges explained above. But, they do not consider the energy-
efficient routing. Here, we are proposing a scheme which uses energy efficient routing to route
the data. The modification is done in position based LAR1 protocol.
Rest of the paper is organized as: a Section II different routing approach for MANET is
discussed. Section III gives the brief overview of LAR1 protocol. The energy efficient routing
schemes are surveyed in Section IV. Section V discusses a proposed idea. Section VI gives the
detail description of simulation model and performance metrics used for experimentation.
Comparative analysis of proposed and original LAR1 protocols using QualNet simulator is given
in section VII. Finally, Section VIII concludes the paper with future work in Section IX.
2. DIFFERENT ROUTING APPROACHES FOR MANET
Many routing protocols have been developed for MANET with features like distributed operation,
creation of loop free paths, security, and QoS support. MANET routing protocol is a standard that
controls how nodes select the short and optimized route to route packets between communicating
devices in a MANET. Routing protocols in MANET are broadly classified into proactive (Table-
driven) and reactive (On-demand) routing protocols. These are based on routing strategy in
MANET. Depending upon the network structure, the routing protocols are categorized as flat
routing; hierarchical routing and geographic position assisted routing [3].
Figure 1. Classification of Routing Protocols

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2.1. Proactive routing protocols
Proactive routing protocols maintain information in a table on each node about the routing to the
other node in the network. Although the topology of the network does not change, this
information must be updated periodically. Many proactive routing protocols have been proposed,
for e.g. Destination Sequence Distance Vector (DSDV), Optimized Linked State Routing (OLSR)
and so on.
2.2. Reactive protocols
These protocols don’t maintain routing information or routing activity at the network nodes if
there is no communication. If a node wants to send a packet to another node then this protocol
searches for the route in an on-demand manner and establishes the connection in order to transmit
and receive the packet. The route discovery usually occurs by flooding the route request packets
throughout the network. Several reactive protocols have been proposed such as Dynamic Source
Routing protocol (DSR), Ad hoc On-demand Distance Vector (AODV), and so on.
2.3. Hybrid routing protocols
For larger networks, it is complex to design routing protocols. All nodes in the network are
separated into groups, called cluster. All clusters form a hierarchical infrastructure. For such
networks separate routing protocols have been designed which are known as hybrid routing
protocols. These are the combination of proactive and reactive routing protocols. They are used in
large networks in order to take advantages of proactive scheme for maintaining the routes in a
cluster and reactive scheme for retaining the routes between the clusters. Several hybrid routing
protocols have been proposed such as Zone Routing Protocol (ZRP), Zone-based Hierarchical
Link State (ZHLS).
2.4. Geographic position based Routing protocols
The above mentioned types of MANET routing protocols do not consider the geographical
location of a destination node. Position-based routing protocols do not establish or maintain route,
a packet is forwarded one hop closer to its final destination by comparing the location of
destination with the location of the node currently holding the packet. These routing protocols
make minimum use of the topology information, hence, they exhibit better scalability compared
to topology-based routing protocols. Such protocols use ‘localized’ algorithms like greedy
forwarding, in which a node forwards a packet to a next hop that is geographically closest to the
destination among its one-hop neighbors. Several Position-based protocols have been proposed
such as Location aided Routing (LAR) [4], Distance Routing Effect Algorithm for Mobility
(DREAM), Most Forward within Distance R (MFR).
3. INTRODUCTION TO LAR1
Position-based routing protocols exhibit better scalability, performance and robustness against
frequent topological changes. These routing protocols use the geographical location of nodes to
make routing in networks. This will improve efficiency and performance of the network. The
main aim of Position-based LAR1 described in [4] is to reduce the control overheads by the use
of location information.
3.1. Location Information
LAR1 protocol requires the information about geographical location of the nodes in network.
This location information can be determined by using Global Positioning System (GPS) [5]. By
using location information, LAR1protocol limits the search for a new route to a smaller request

zone of the ad hoc network. This results in a significant reduction in the number of routing
messages.
3.2. Estimation of Expected and Request Zones
LAR1 has two types of zone, Expected zone and Request zone, to restrict the flooding of route
request packets. A source node uses the location service to find out the location of the destination
and according to that information it will set the expected zone. Request zone is also determined
by the source node and it is zone where a route request should be forwarded from source.
3.2.1. Expected Zone
Expected zone is set up by the source node S when it has data intended for destination node D. By
using location service node S estimates the geographical location of node D at time t0. Suppose
node D was at location O at time t0, and that the current time is t1. From this information node S is
capable of determining the ‘expected zone’ of node D from the viewpoint of node S by time t1. It
is the region that node S expects to contain node D at time t1. For instance, if node D is travelling
with average speed ν, then node S assumes that node D is in the expected zone of circular region
of radius ν (t1 – t0), centered at location O. The expected zone is only an estimate made by node S
to determine a region that may contain D at time t1. Since, if actual speed of node D is greater
than the average, then the destination D may actually be outside the expected zone at time t1.
Figure 1 shows the expected zone created by the source node S.
Figure 2. Expected Zone
3.2.2. Request Zone
The ‘request zone’ is different from the expected zone. It is the zone where a route request should
be forwarded from source. An intermediate node will forward a route request packet only, if it
belongs to the request zone. The request zone should contain the expected zone to reach
destination node D. The source node S defines this zone for flooding the route request packets.
An intermediate node will forward the request packet, only if it is located within the request zone.
3.3. Protocol Functioning
In LAR1 scheme the request zone is of a rectangular shape. Assumption is that the source node S
knows the destination node D’s average speed ν and location (Xd,Yd) at time t0. The request zone
is considered to be the smallest rectangle that includes the current source location, and the
expected zone. The sides of the rectangle are parallel to X and Y axes. The source node
determines the request zone and initiates the route request packet containing the four corners
coordinates of request zone. Each intermediate node, receiving the request packet, checks whether
it belongs to the rectangle; if it does not, it will discard the packet such as node Q does in the
following Figure 2. In the same Figure 2, node P will forward the packet because it belongs to the
rectangle. In the reply packet, node D will attach its accurate location and the current time stamp,
which will be stored in the source’s cache for future use.

Figure 3. Working of LAR1
4. BRIEF OVERVIEW OF ENERGY EFFICIENT ROUTING SCHEMES
Several energy-efficient techniques are proposed to reduce energy consumption in MANET.
These techniques use energy aware metrics to establish a path in a network. These metrics are
residual energy, transmission power or link distance. Niranjan Kumar Ray and Ashok Kumar
Turuk have discussed different energy efficient techniques for wireless ad-hoc network [6]. One
of the techniques is based on reduction of number of route request messages. In second Power
control technique, next hop node is chosen depending on the power level of the node. Topology
control technique is used to remove the energy-inefficient link from the network by examining
the power level of the node. This technique helps network devices to take decision about their
transmission range.
Morteza Maleki, Karthik Dantu, and Massoud Pedram in [7] have proposed a new power-aware
source-initiated (on demand) routing protocol for mobile Ad-hoc networks that increase the
network lifetime up to 30%. A greedy policy was applied to fetched paths from the cache to make
sure no path would be overused and also make sure that each selected path has minimum battery
cost among all possible path between two nodes. Power-aware Source Routing (PSR) has taken
care of both the node mobility and the node energy depletion that may cause a path to become
invalid.
Energy-based Route Discovery Mechanism in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks [8] selects the route
which has lowest energy cost in the network. The energy cost represents energy consumption of
the network in order to prolong all connections between source and destination nodes. The energy
cost is calculated using realistic energy consumption modeling which is used the channel quality
to decide whether each packet is successfully received.
Location aided Energy-Efficient Routing protocol (LEER) protocol finds out the all possible
paths from source to destination and selects minimum energy path to route the packets [9]. The
selection of next hop node is based on whether it is situated near to destination than to source as
well as transmit power of that node.
An energy aware routing scheme in location based ad-hoc network has proposed by Jangsu Lee,
Seunghwan Yoo and Sungchun KimIn [10]. This method modifies the LAR protocol in which the
virtual grid is applied to ad hoc network region and high energy node is selected as header for
each grid which communicates information about nodes in that particular grid. The transmit

power of nodes is adjusted according to the distance between them. The next hop node will be
selected based on transmit power and its distance from the destination.
Nen-Chung Wang and Si-Ming Wang [11] have proposed a scheme which decides the baseline
line between the source node and the destination node, for route discovery. The next hop is then
selected based on baseline by broadcasting the request packets in request zone. The neighboring
node with the shortest distance to the baseline is chosen as the next hop node. This method
reduces control overheads by finding a better routing path than LAR scheme. They have proposed
a partial reconstruction process for maintaining broken links of routing path.
Arthi Kothandaraman has proposed a protocol which based on transmission power control [12]. It
varies the transmission range of a node to exclusively accommodate an independent node's
neighbor set. This purely distributed as well as protocol independent scheme and preserves
connectivity, and allows low power transmissions.
5. PROPOSED SCHEME
LAR1 protocol uses location information of a node for setting the path from source to destination.
We take this feature of LAR1 as a key factor in designing of variable range technique. The main
aim is to design a technique of variable transmission power control to reduce overall energy
consumption of the network. RREQ in LAR1 protocol consists of source location and destination
location information. We have used this information to calculate the distance between the nodes.
We also embed the energy factor of the node in RREQ packet for selection of energy efficient
path.
5.1. Energy Factor Calculation
Yang Qin et. al. [13] have proposed an energy efficient routing metric called as Energy factor.
They have used this metric for multipath concept where the most energy efficient as well as
shortest path is selected to deliver the data packets. Similarly, in our method we use this metric to
select the next hop node while discovering the path to destination. We define an energy-efficient
routing metric for selecting the node having sufficient energy to route the packets. The terms used
in metric are as follows:
EFp: Energy Factor of node p
REp: Remaining Energy of node p
IEp: Initial Energy of node p
Energy factor is calculated by using the formula (1) for every node when it receives route request
or data packet.
(1)
The EF of all the nodes along a valid path are multiplied together to obtain the EF of the path. We
define it as minimum cost and it is given by-
(2)
Where, N: Number of nodes between source S and Destination D.
Minimum cost metric selects the most energy-efficient path. The purpose of multiplication of EF
values is to select the nodes having sufficient energy so that the minimum cost of the path from
source to destination is high.

5.2. Algorithm for ELAR1-VAR
a) Firstly the initial transmission power is set at the physical layer of each node in the
network, for a data rate of 2 Mbps. We have set 25 dBm transmit power as initial
transmission power which sets initial transmission range ‘Tr’ for each node.
b) A source node S determines the location and velocity of destination node and sets the
expected and request zones accordingly.
c) Source node S floods RREQ packets containing the coordinates of request zone and
location information of S in the request zone.
d) Upon receiving RREQ packet at intermediate node, first it checks whether it is in request
zone or not.
e) If intermediate node is in request zone then,
i. It calculates EF of node itself and minimum cost of path to reach this node
from source S.
ii. Intermediate node within the request zone is selected if the minimum cost
obtained is above threshold value otherwise node will not be selected as next
hop node to forward the RREQ packets
iii. After the selection of next hop node, node calculates its distance from
previous node. If an intermediate node I(Xi,Yi) receives a RREQ packet from
a node poisoned at J(Xj,Yj), then dist(i,j) is calculated using the Euclidian
distance measurement in (3)
(3)
iv. If dist(i,j) < Tr, then according to the distance transmission power is set at
the physical layer of node J.
f) If intermediate node is not in request zone then it simply discards the RREQ packet.
g) When destination node receives the RREQ packet, it generates RREP containing its
location as well as velocity at current time instance and sends it to source node S.
6. SIMULATION MODEL AND PERFORMANCE METRICS
Simulator used for the comparative analysis is QualNet 5.0 [14]. It is suitable for designing new
protocols, comparing different protocols and traffic evaluations. QualNet architecture is divided
into three levels, Kernel, Model Libraries and Graphical User Interface (GUI). The user can use
the QualNet GUI for creating and animating network scenarios, and analyzing their performance
using the analyzer.
6.1. Simulation Model
Simulation model is comprised of traffic model, mobility model, energy model, and battery
model. The detailed description of all these are as follows:
6.1.1. Traffic Model and Mobility Model
Traffic is generated using constant bit rate (CBR). The packet size is limited to 512 bytes. The
mobility model is used to describe the movement pattern of mobile users, and how their location,
velocity and acceleration change over time. Random waypoint mobility model is used to give
mobility to nodes in the network.

6.1.2. Energy Model
Energy model is used to analyze the overall energy consumption of the network. QualNet
supports generic energy model [15]. We have used generic energy model for experimentation
because it can estimate energy consumption in transmitter for the case of continuous and variable
transmit power levels. Table 1, shows specifications of generic energy model.
Table 1. Generic Energy Model
Parameter Values
Power Amplifier Inefficiency factor 6.5
Transmit Circuitry power Consumption 100.0 mW
Receive Circuitry power Consumption 130.0 mW
Idle Circuitry power Consumption 120.0 mW
Sleep Circuitry power Consumption 0.0
Supply voltage (volt) 6.5
6.1.3. Battery Model
MANET consists of mobile nodes which are battery operated. QualNet has Linear Battery model
which enables the analysis of the discharge behavior of the battery in mobile nodes.
6.2. Performance Metrics
Quality of a service is the performance level of a service offered by the network. The multimedia
services demand for quick and better quality of data, it means the data rate and delay are the key
factors for these services. For military applications, the security and reliable data delivery are of
major concern. In sensor networks, the energy consumption and battery life would be the most
important parameters. Different performance metrics are used for comparison are as given below-
6.2.1. Packet Delivery Ratio
It is the ratio of total number of data packets received successfully at destination to number of
data packets generated at the source [16]. PDR values range from 0 to 1. Higher PDR values
decide the consistency of the protocol.
6.2.2. End-to-End Delay
The end to end delay is the average time interval between the generation of a packet at a source
node and the successfully delivery of the packet at the destination node [16]. Low end to end
delay gives better performance of the network.
6.2.3. ECSDD (Energy Consumption per Successful Data Delivery)
It is the ratio of total energy consumption to the number of data packets successfully delivered to
the destination [17]. Lower the ECSDD values indicate that node uses less energy for data
communication. This helps in extending the lifetime of node and thus overall network lifetime.
6.2.4. Average energy consumption
Energy consumed by all nodes in the network [17]. Energy consumption should be as low as
possible so as to make fair utilization of limited battery power.

7. SIMULATION RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS
The network area taken for experimentation is 1000m x 1000m. The comparison of proposed and
original protocol is done for different number of nodes, speeds and packet rates. Battery model is
used at the node level with battery capacity 60mAHr .We have set the transmission power for
nodes equal to 25 dBm. The scenario model for examining the ELAR1-VAR in dense and
moderately mobile network is given in Table 2.
Table 2. Scenario Model
Parameters Variation of
Number of Nodes
Variation of Node
speed
Variation of Packet
rate
Area(m2
) 1000 x 1000 1000 x 1000 1000 x 1000
Nodes 20,40,60,80,100 50 50
Node Speed(m/s) 10 1,5,10,15,20,25,30 10
Simulation Time(s) 900 900 900
Pause Time(s) 100 100 100
Traffic Type CBR CBR CBR
Traffic Load 50% 50% 50%
Packet Rate(packets/s) 4 4 2,4,6,8,10
Initial Power 60 mAHr 60 mAHr 60 mAHr
7.1. Impact of Variation of Number of Nodes
Simulation parameters for analysis of variation of number of nodes are given in Table 2. Both
protocols are analyzed for variation of nodes from 20 to 100. This will help in analyzing the
behavior of protocols in dense and sparse network.
Figure 4. PDR vs. No. of Nodes Figure 5. End-to-End Delay vs. No. of Nodes
The variation of PDR and end to end delay with respect to number of nodes is shown in Figure
4 and Figure 5 respectively. It is observed that ELAR1-VAR has same packet delivery as LAR1
up to 60 nodes. PDR for highly dense network is slightly less. We can say that ELAR1-VAR is
suitable option for low as well as dense network. End to end delay for modified protocol is
equal to original one but for highly dense network it increases rapidly. This is because the
modified method calculates the distances between the nodes for setting transmit power which
increases the processing time of RREQ at intermediate node.

Figure 6. ECSDD vs. No. of Nodes Figure 7. Ave. Energy Consumption vs. No. of
Nodes
Figure 6 and Figure 7 shows ECSDD graph and energy consumed for different number of nodes
respectively. The modified protocol consumes low energy for each successful data delivery.
Hence, we can use ELAR1-VAR protocol for energy efficient applications. It is clear from
figure 5 that energy consumption for ELAR1-VAR decreases approximately by 20%.
7.2. Impact of Variation of Node Speed
We are varying the speed of mobile nodes from 1m/s to 30 m/s to see the performance of
ELAR1-VAR in mobile environment. The results for different performance metrics are as
follows:
Figure 8. PDR vs. Speed Figure 9. End-to-End Delay vs. Speed
The PDR and end to end delay results for different speeds are as shown in Figure 8 and Figure 9
respectively. If we increase the speed from 1 to 30 then PDR for ELAR1-VAR is approximately
above 90% which indicates that it gives better results in low as well as high mobility network.
There is an increase in delay for modified protocol. This is because location of node changes
rapidly as node speed increases and node has to send new control packets which results in more
delay.

Figure 10. ECSDD vs. Speed Figure 11. Average Energy Consumption vs.
Speed
Impact of speed variation on ECSDD is shown in Figure 10. Energy consumption and ECSDD
for ELAR1-VAR is less than LAR1. But, as speed increases the energy consumption in Figure
11 for both the protocol remains same. It is clear from Figure 10 that the energy consumption
per data delivery decreases which improves the battery lifetime.
7.3. Impact of Variation of Packet Rate
Packet rate is varied from 2 to 10packets/second. Packet rate is varied to analyze the network
capability of handling large number of data at a time.
Figure 12. PDR vs. Packet Rate Figure 13. End-to-End Delay vs. Packet Rate
Figure 12 gives performance comparison of ELAR1-VAR with LAR1 in terms of PDR. There is
increasing trend of PDR for both ELAR1-VAR and LAR1. As shown in Figure 13, ELAR1-
VAR has comparable delay value for lower packet rates. Delay increases with the packet rate
for both protocols. Since, the more packets are to be sent at a time which overflows the buffer
resulting in dropping of packets. Hence, packets are to be retransmitted which increases the end
to end delay.

Figure 14. ECSDD vs. Packet Rate Figure 15. Average Energy Consumption vs.
Packet Rate
As depicted in Figure 14, there is noteworthy change in ECSDD value for modified protocol.
Also as shown in Figure 15, the overall energy consumption for network decreases with
ELAR1-VAR.
8. CONCLUSION
We compared ELAR1-VAR and LAR1protocols considering the performance metrics such as
packet delivery ratio, end to end delay, average energy consumption, and ECSDD. Several
simulations have performed under different network conditions to analyze the performance of
modified protocol with LAR1. The analysis of results showed that there is very slight change in
packet delivery but remarkable change in energy consumption. Packet delivery is low for highly
dense network whereas for all speed variation it maintains 90% of PDR. Average end to end
delay is less sensitive to node speed. Lower packet rate has less impact on delay. Since, delay
increases rapidly for higher packet rate and highly dense network.
The ELAR1-VAR consumes less energy for dense and moderately mobile network having
packet rate of 4 packets/second. It is observed that overall energy consumption of the network is
decreased by 20%. In ELAR1-VAR, the energy consumption per successful data delivery is
lowered and thus nodes in the network can communicate with each other for longer period.
Thus, our aim of extending network lifetime is achieved.
9. FUTURE WORK
The work can be extended to analyze the performance of ELAR1-VAR for different
performance metrics such control overheads, jitter and throughput. The performance of ELAR1-
VAR can be compared for different network areas and number of CBR connections.
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Authors
Nivedita N. Joshi received the BE degree in
2008 from Pune University. She is currently a
M.Tech student at College of Engineering,
Pune, India which is an autonomous institute of
Government of Maharashtra. She is pursuing
her M.Tech in Wired and Wireless
Communication. Her area of interests are
wireless communication, image processing.
Radhika D Joshi received the BE degree in
1993 from Pune University and ME Degree
from Pune University in 2002. She is currently a
PhD student at the University of Pune. She is
pursuing research in the field of Wireless
Mobile Ad hoc networks energy management
issues. At present she is serving as Assistant
Professor at Electronics and Telecommunication
Engineering department of College of
Engineering Pune, which is an autonomous
institute of Government of Maharashtra. Her
areas of interests are wireless communication,
signal processing and electronic devices and
circuits. She has received grants for two
research proposals from two funding agencies
recently. She has published several papers in
journals and international conferences

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