A Review on Energy and Location Aware Routing Protocols in Mane

Mobile Ad-hoc networks (MANETs) are a group of mobile nodes that are wireless and self-organized. They create a network that is temporal and without the aid of any centralized access point. MANETs suffer from a reduced network lifetime, low throughput, increased power consumption and the possibility of an intermediate node to become a bottleneck in the network due to inefficient routing protocols. Many researchers have attempted to mitigate some of the above mentioned challenges by using topology based routing protocols, energy based routing protocol or location aware routing protocols, yet there is still problem of low throughput, end-to-end delay, node energy depletion and low network lifetime. This paper presents a review of energy and location aware routing protocols in mobile ad-hoc networks and proposes better ways to mitigate these problems with the aim of achieving an improved energy aware routing in MANET.