Energy Efficient Routing Protocol for MANET Based on Vague Set Measurement Technique

MANET is a collection of mobile nodes that are moving dynamically due to infrastructure-less property. The topology of MANET changes very frequently. Every mobile node is powered by a battery with insufficient capacity and due to this reason sometime nodes are failing to transmit a data packet from source to destination. In this paper, we propose an energy efficient routing protocol for MANET using vague set measurement technique. The basic idea of this proposed protocol is to select an energy efficient route based on vague set measurement technique. Vague set measurement technique mainly used interval-based membership where each parameter such as energy and distance is used as an element of vague set. Therefore, this approach helps to determine the energy efficient route. Based on different survey, this is the first research attempt to energy efficient routing using vague set. Based on the simulation of the proposed protocol using NS2 and comparative study with other existing protocol, it is observed that proposed routing protocol contributes to the performance expansion in terms of energy efficiency.