Mahamed Abdelmadjid Allalili¹, Zoulikha Mekkakia Maaza², Ali Kies², Redouane Belbachir², ¹University Hassiba Ben Boualiof, Algeria and ²University of Sciences and the Technology of Oran, Algeria

Mobile ad hoc network is a collection of wireless mobile nodes, which are connected over a wireless medium. There is no pre-existing communication infrastructure (no access points, no base stations) and the nodes can freely move and self-organize into a network topology. Such a network can contain two or more nodes. Hence, balancing the load in an Ad hoc network is important because the nodes have limited communication resources such as bandwidth, buffer space and battery power. This paper presents a new approach to load balancing based on residual energy of nodes for distribute the traffic evenly among the network nodes. We are exploiting the multipath routing protocol AOMDV, which defines link-disjoint paths between the source and the destination in every route discovery. We add the energy metric for load balancing (ELB-AOMDV). The performance is compared between ELB-AOMDV and LB-AOMDV.

Ad hoc network, Load balancing, Residual energy, AOMDV protocol.