Fair Energy Saving (FES) algorithm in MANET

As the wireless mobile devices are coming to wide use, MANETs are getting more attention. Each device has to not only maintain some information relating to forwarding the traffic including the traffic unrelated to its own use, but also establish the path using the broadcast packets. The more traffic, the more channel contentions, redundant retransmissions and collisions, which will cause to increase the battery consumption, which is one of critical factors of each small device. Furthermore there is another factor that energy consumption should be evenly distributed among small devices, since some power-used-up nodes will cause traffic delivery delay or block. Here we propose a FES algorithm in MANET-like environment, showing power consumption can be saved and evenly distributed to nodes in MANET. The simulations were performed using the Qualnet 5.1 discrete event network simulator.