A hybrid communication protocol for cellular architecture using energy efficient AODV

Cellular mobile communication is one of the fastest growing means of communication nowadays. With the load on the channel between base stations and the individual mobile hosts increasing, there is an increasing demand on the communication means to be simple and energy efficient. Some of the algorithms like AODV have already come up in the mobile ad-hoc networks to counter the problems of excessive energy consumption. In this thesis a new energy efficient routing scheme for communication in cellular networks that uses the idea of AODV and the existing communication scheme used in cellular networks is proposed. This proposed work also offers efficient handling of packet loss during handoff.