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Abstract
Since the need to conserve energy so that battery life is maximized is important, it is obvious that energy efficient routing algorithms should be implemented in place of the conventional routing algorithm. In the conventional algorithm, connections between two nodes are established through the shortest path routes. It is unaware of energy budget and thus results in a quick depletion of the battery energy of the nodes along the most heavily used routes in the network.
Therefore to conserve battery energy of the nodes, there are various routing algorithms and schemes designed to select alternative routes. These algorithms and schemes are collectively known as ‘power-aware routing protocols’ and an example of a better choice of routes selected is one where packets get routed through paths that may be longer but that pass through nodes that have plenty of energy reserves. One point to note is that the power-aware routing protocols are not necessary new routing protocols but just modifications to or incorporated in the current ad hoc network routing protocols like DSR, TORA and AOMDV.
However these protocols still face many problems as the limited number of generated paths which cause a high routing overhead due to nodes mobility. Besides that these paths may be not 100% disjoint and cause data lose due to packet collision, and to avoid that theses algorithms use only one path in sending data till it’s broken.
from here comes the motive of this work through designing a parallel routing protocol generating unlimited number of 100% disjoint paths called Load Balancing parallel Routing Protocol [LBPRP]. The LBPRP balanced the sent data load using a balancing technique that depends on the maximum available bandwidth of the used paths.
We employed a simulation scenarios using c#2010 to be sure of proposed model efficiency and validation. Simulation results show that the using of the proposed algorithm as a power aware routing algorithm has a great impact on improving network life time through balancing the data load, increasing the packet delivery ratio up to 97% instead of 92.8%, decreasing routing overhead and packet loss to 6% instead of 10% and finally decreasing the power consumption by 17% compared to AOMDV which considered the best multi-path routing algorithm exist.