Minimal Energy Consumption in MANET Using Cluster Head Selection and PLGP-M

Lack of infrastructure, Route discovery management and Energy consumption monitoring in MANET poses very big challenges for researchers working in this field. The existing protocols like Link State Routing, Destination Sequence Distance Vector, Low Energy Adaptive Cluster Hierarchy and Parno Luk Gaustad Perrig (PLGP) are not well suited for decentralized schemes because of the energy constraints in nodes which need to be taken into consideration while designing routing protocols. This paper presents the design and implementation using NS-2 simulator for optimal route discovery management by using Cluster Head Selection (CHS) and constructing less energy consuming route by PLGP-MANET (PLGP-M) algorithms. Our proposed system gives effective route discovery management which saves the energy. It is also inferred that CHS algorithm in ad-hoc networks maximizes the lifetime of the nodes in order to minimize maintenance, while PLGP-M reduces energy by finding optimal routing path and maximizes the overall performance.