Energy - Optimized Route Discovery in AODV

Energy is a scarce resource in the Mobile Adhoc network. The efficient usage of the energy resources in mobile Adhoc environment is a big challenge. Sometimes few paths are utilized more than the other available routes from source to destination. Due to excessive use of that path, the energy of the node is exhausted and the node switched off itself. This paper will discuss about a new approach for efficient route discovery which works on the concept of residual energy available. By integrating the residual energy into consideration the lifetime of the network can be optimized. The performance of the modified protocol is simulated in Ns2 (2.35).