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In this paper we improved the Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) protocol to Load Balanced DSR (LBDSR) protocol. We modified control messages in DSR in order to maintain remained energy of intermediate nodes. Routes discovered by these modified control messages, have a remained energy array field which shows total of remained battery power of all nodes in a route. Selecting a route is depending on length, freshness, traffic and energy level of routes. LBDSR shows better traffic balancing, energy consumptions balancing, and end-to-end delay metrics than DSR and can be customized to achieve even better performance related to a specific metric.