Using NDN in Improving Energy Efficiency of MANET Farkhana Muchtar, Pradeep Kumar Singh, Raaid Alubady, Ili Najaa Aimi Mohd Nordin, Radzi Ambar, Mohd Najwadi Yusoff, Deris Stiawan and Mosleh Hamoud Al-Adhaileh Abstract This paper seeks to extol the virtues of named data networking (NDN), as an alternative to host-centric networking (HCN), for its prominent features that can be taken advantage of to significantly reduce energy consumption demands in a mobile F. Muchtar Faculty Engineering, School of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 Skudai, Johor, Malaysia e-mail: farkhana2@gmail.com P. K. Singh (B ) Department of CSE and IT, JayPee University of IT, Waknaghat, Solan, Himachal Pradesh 17334, India e-mail: pradeep_84cs@yahoo.com R. Alubady Information Technology Department, College of Information Technology, University of Babylon, Hillah, Iraq e-mail: alubadyraaid@itnet.uobabylon.edu.iq I. N. A. M. Nordin Faculty of Engineering Technology, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, 84600 Pagoh, Malaysia e-mail: ilinajaa@uthm.edu.my R. Ambar Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, 86400 Batu Pahat, Malaysia e-mail: aradzi@uthm.my M. N. Yusoff School of Computer Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Gelugor, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia e-mail: najwadi@usm.my D. Stiawan Faculty of Computer Science, Universitas Sriwijaya, Jalan Srijaya Negara, Palembang 30139, Indonesia e-mail: deris@unsri.ac.id M. H. Al-Adhaileh Deanship of E-learning and Distance Education, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia e-mail: madaileh@kfu.edu.sa © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 P. K. Singh et al. (eds.), Proceedings of ICRIC 2019, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 597, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29407-6_32 439