Smart and Sustainable Approaches for Optimizing Performance of Wireless Networks

12Metaheuristics to Aid Energy‐Efficient Path Selection in Route Aggregated Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Deepa Mehta¹, Sherin Zafar², Siddhartha Sankar Biswas², Nida Iftekhar², and Samia Khan²

¹ Department of EEE, GD Goenka University, Sohna, Haryana, New Delhi, India

² Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India

12.1 Introduction

Ad hoc networks [13] have endured several issues, [15, 25] arising consequentially due to their unique features. Some of the main issues among others are restricted battery life [52], scarce memory, and limited processing capabilities [17]. However, the advantages associated with MANETs make them uniquely popular for certain crucial applications, [49] such as in military battlegrounds for the soldiers to remain connected, provincial applications including conferences, etc., and commercial applications including disaster management [4], etc. With increasing interest toward the use of MANETs as new applications evolve, there arises a need for efficient [3] routing protocols that are capable of reducing the constraints [5] characterizing MANETs. Energy efficiency [50] is one of the crucial requirements of the protocol, as it will eventually help to increase the lifetime of the network, reducing the communication overheads, [25] as well as other limited resources such as memory, which also becomes one of the critical requirements of the routing protocol. It is a well‐known that ...