Abstruc/A Mobile Ad-hoc'NETwork (MANET), also referred as Independent Basic Service Set (IBSS), has nodes which not only sendlreceive'packets associated with them but also co-operate in forwarding dataand control packets for the network. Efficient use of energy by the mobile nodes is very important to increase the lifetime of MANET. Since nodes seldom have packets to receive, they remain in Idl...