Scalable and Efficient Strategies for Grid based Location Services for Bandwidth Efficient and Energy Conserving Routing in Mobile Ad hoc Network

A Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET) is a network topology of choice where autonomous nodes form a collaborative community. Position based routing protocols have been studied extensively over the past years, But how to efficiently provide the location information for nodes and how to control location update frequency is still a challenge. In this paper, we address the problem of maintaining location service and propose an energy aware grid location service which efficiently provide location information and conserve energy extending the lifetime of a MANET. The protocol uses hierarchical grid location service to minimize inevitable superfluous flooding by every node, and prevents location updates and queries from traversing the entire network unnecessarily, hence conserving bandwidth and transmission power.