Distributed power management protocols for multi-hop mobile ad hoc networks

Shih Lin Wu*, Pao Chu Tseng, Zi Tsan Chou

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The power management scheme in IEEE 802.11 protocol has three severe challenges: beacon contention, timing synchronization, and reliable neighbor maintenance. These challenges are more serious in large and dense multi-hop mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). To overcome these challenges and improve the energy efficiency as well as network throughput, we propose three new power management protocols. Especially, our solutions offer the network designers full flexibility in trading energy, latency, and neighbor maintenance's accuracy versus each other by appropriately tuning system parameters. Analyses and simulations show that the proposed protocols attain both the better energy efficiency and throughput than existing protocols.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)63-85
Number of pages23
JournalComputer Networks
Volume47
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 14 01 2005

Keywords

  • IEEE 802.11
  • Mobile ad hoc network (MANET)
  • Power management
  • Wireless networks

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