Mobile adhoc network (MANET) has become an important and emerging networking technology because of the rapid emergence of wireless devices. Lifetime of MANET is one of the important parameters which is responsible for the performance. Since, MANET is mainly operated on battery power so lifetime should be enhanced. In a MANET, the energy depletion of a node does not affect the node itself only, but it also affects the overall network lifetime. DSR is a reactive routing protocol which uses source routing technique. A Modified Energy Saving Dynamic Source Routing in MANETs has been proposed which will efficiently utilize the battery power of the mobile nodes in such a way that the network will get more life time. DSR is used as our base model is mainly due to the fact that it is a typical on demand protocol with less bandwidth and energy use. For optimization mechanism, we use Multi-Objective ant colony optimization technique i.e. (MO-ACO).
MANET (Mobile adhoc network), Energy Efficient DSR, MO-ACO(Multi-Objective Ant Colony Optimization)
