Mobile ad‐hoc network (MANET) is a gathering of portable nodes that works without foundation or central administration. Because of the accessibility of little and cheap remote conveying nodes, MANETs can be utilized as a part of different applications, for example, front line correspondence and debacle alleviation applications. Energy consumption is an important issues in MANET because the mobile nodes are battery powered, hence diminishing system lifetime as batteries get depleted rapidly as nodes move and change their positions quickly crosswise over MANET. We propose an energy efficient channel aware routing algorithm for mobile ad‐hoc networks, called energy efficient channel aware ad‐hoc on‐demand multipath distance vector routing (EECA‐AOMDV). EECA‐AOMDV addresses three vital prerequisites of mobile ad‐hoc networks: energy effectiveness, unwavering quality and dragging out system lifetime. The proposed energy efficient channel mindful AOMDV (EECA‐AOMDV) utilizes the channel normal nonfading span and nodal residual energy as directing metric to choose the stable route for way revelation. The key thought of the convention is to discover average channel nonfading duration and maximum nodal residual energy as routing metrics of each course during the time spent choosing way and sort the multi course by slipping channel nonfading duration and nodal leftover energy.