Cost Based Power Aware Cross Layer Routing Protocol for Manet

Mobile Ad-Hoc NETworks (MANETs) are wireless networks consisting of a collection of mobile nodes with no fixed infrastructure, where some intermediate nodes should participate in forwarding data packets. So energy conservation is a critical issue in ad hoc wireless networks for node and network life. This issue is crucial in the design of new routing protocols. To design such protocols, the authors have to look away from the traditional minimum hop routing schemes. In this paper, they propose a cost based power aware cross layer design to AODV. The discovery mechanism in this algorithm uses Battery Capacity of a node as a routing metric. This approach is based on intermediate nodes calculating cost based on Battery capacity.