Figure 2, 3 and 4 shows the energy consumed in different
types of packets of selected routing protocols. The routing
energy consumption increases with the increase of either
nodes or speed and it is minimum for DSR and maximum for
DSDV. The MAC energy consumption decreases and it is
minimum for DSDV. The DSR consumes less energy as
compared to AODV because DSR uses cache for route
maintenance whereas AODV starts a new route discovery for
link breakage.