Abou Emira, Shahenda SYoussef, Khaled YAbouelatta, Mohamed2021-02-062021-02-062020-122415-6698https://dx.doi.org/10.25046/aj0506205http://repository.msa.edu.eg/xmlui/handle/123456789/4416ScopusThe demand on livestock as a source of protein is increasing with the dramatic increase of world population which approaches 8 billion. As a result, the monitoring of the performance of livestock breeding is becoming essential. The technique which could increase livestock production and improve the efficiency of operation is digitalization of livestock management.This could be achieved by models' realization that relates the rates of productivity and the parameters of operation which count on collecting big volume of data that results from digitalization process. In fact, the adoption of IoT technology in livestock environments is usually challenged by energy problems and power efficient communication technologies. In this paper a modified AODV protocol is proposed to enhance the traditional AODV protocol used in MANET networks that was mainly concerned with optimal route selection based on shortest path to send the data packets through it. The proposed technique models and simulates operational parameters of intermediate nodes as a factor to decide on the optimal path selection in IoT based MANET networks in addition to the shortest path that leads to transmission power gain of the source node. The results show a significant power performance enhancement that reaches average power saving of 33.3% compared to the traditional AODV protocol. © 2020 ASTES Publishers. All rights reserveden-USOctober University for AODVIoTLivestockMANETRoutingSustainabilityArticle