ES-DSR: A New Energy-saving Routing Algorithm for Ad Hoc Networks

This paper proposes a new energy-savingrouting algorithm to improve the survival time of the ad hocnetworks as well as other performance metrics. The ESDSR algorithm introduces two parameters which are thecount of hops and the energy parameter into the routingcost function, and adjusts these two parameters according to the nodes' energy in the network by using a kindof weighted factor, thus achieving the purpose of adoptingdifferent routing strategies in accordance to the differentsituations of the network. Simulation results indicate thatcompared with DSR and MMBCR protocols, ES-DSR caneffectively improve the survival time, the throughput andother performance of ad hoc networks.