I.J. Wireless and Microwave Technologies, 2019, 4, 11-25 Published Online July 2019 in MECS(http://www.mecs-press.net) DOI: 10.5815/ijwmt.2019.04.02 Available online at http://www.mecs-press.net/ijwmt ZBLE: Zone Based Leader Selection Protocol Rani Sahu* a , Sanjay Sharma b , M. A. Rizvi c *a Research Scholars, Department of Computer Applications, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology Bhopal, India b Professor, Department of Computer Applications, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology Bhopal, India c HOD, Department of Computer Technology and Application NITTTR Bhopal (M.P.) India Received: 30 April 2019; Accepted: 06 June 2019; Published: 08 July 2019 Abstract Various wireless mobile nodes are simultaneously a network that does not depend on any central administration system. This kind of network is called Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET). Due to the nodes dependent on the battery in MANET, energy consumption has become a major problem. Because of the mobility of the nodes in the network, the nodes rapidly change their positions, causing the battery to end very quickly, thereby reducing the life of such a network. The main objective of this paper is to reduce energy consumption and increase the life of the network by modifying the AOMDV protocol using zone-based technology. Keeping this objective in mind, a zone-based protocol was developed which has been addressed in the name of Zone Based Leader Selection Protocol (ZBLE). This proposed protocol uses zone-based technology to select the path based on high energy and high power. For the data forward, selecting the Leader node in each zone, the best path is chosen based on the energy level of the node and the strength of the probe. The proposed protocol has been evaluated using Network Simulator version 2.35. Comparison of ZBLE, protocols the most popular protocols are from AODV and AOMDV. With the help of simulation results, we have used service parameters such as packet distribution ratio, energy consumption, network lifetime and throughput to tell the quality of the proposed protocol. Index Terms: Energy efficient protocol, Mobile Ad-hoc network, multipath routing, Zone Based function. © 2019 Published by MECS Publisher. Selection and/or peer review under responsibility of the Research Association of Modern Education and Computer Science * Corresponding author. Tel.: 9826490802 E-mail address: rani.princy28@gmail.com